News links of interest

Octoberfest was about as fine a short dig as anyone could conceive, barring danger or romance(if those are not the same thing?).

I will expand, but for the moment:

DESCANSO, Calif. - An oak tree was still burning nearby when Margaret Hangan made her way across a wildfire-scorched landscape and spotted to her delight a set of flat-topped granite boulders that served as kitchen counters in an ancient village 2,000 years ago.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061012/ap_on_re_us/fire_archaeologist


Recently discovered Aztec monolith possibly largest ever unearthed in Mexico City's center
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/10/14/science/2_01_0610_13_06.txt

AN astonishing artefact of Stone Age Sydney has been discovered less than 100 kilometres from the CBD.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/wollemi-treasure/2006/10/13/1160246332472.html