Strangeness and Quark Gluon Plasma

A brief summary of strangeness mile stones is followed by a chemical non-equilibrium statistical hadronization analysis of strangeness results at SPS and RHIC. Strange particle production in AA interactions at \sqrt{s_{NN}}\ge 8.6 GeV can be understood consistently as originating from the deconfined quark–gluon plasma in a sudden hadronization process. Onset of QGP formation as function of energy is placed in the beam energy interval 10–30A GeV/c. Strangeness anomalies at LHC are described.