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173 pages of results. 421. Thera Revisited: A Final Rejoinder [Journals] [Kronos]
... Greenberg, Aug. 18, 1987] .) Second, Hammer, et al. 's date of 1645 B.C . does not agree with the conventional archaeological date for the eruption of Thera, generally placed at ca. 1500 B.C . That date was originally determined by Late Minoan I (LMI) ceramic ware ... puzzle not yet solved." However, fourteen years ago, the present writer raised similar lines of thought in the journal Pensée. "What was not considered by the archaeologists, geologists, and seismologists . . . were two additional questions: 1) Could another agent independent and in concert with Thera have caused the widespread destruction that was ...
422. The Reality of Extinctions [Journals] [Aeon]
... highly unlikely we have finished with them yet. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Edwards, I. E. S. The Pyramids of Egypt (Harmondsworth, 1980) Flood, J. Archaeology of the Dreamtime (London, 1983) Fotheringham, J. K. Historical Eclipses (Oxford, 1921) Gibbs, S. Greek and Roman Sundials (Yale ... shortage of speculation on the matter. An early French writer thought the stone rows at Carnac in Brittany had been used by Caesar's soldiers for tying down their tents. An archaeologist in Britain suggested the cursus excavations were for cattle droving. An Oxford academic set out to prove that the stone rings had been designed to demonstrate some pre-Pythagorean principles of ...
423. The Danunians and the Velikovsky Revision [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... . and his MA. from U.C .L .A . He has been a past Associate Editor of Kronos and has been published in such magazines as Biblical Archaeology, the Griffith Observer, and the Biblical Archaeological Review. REFERENCES 1. O.R . Gurney, The Hittites (Baltimore: 1952), pp. 12 ... finally reached Cilicia where he founded other cities. A side note to this is the name of Aspendus. Astor writes: "It may be recognized with Bossert [the archaeologist at Karatepe] that the coincidence of the H-H [Hittite hieroglyphic] name of Asitawandas from Karatepe with native name of the Pamphylian Aspendus, Estwenda, ' i. ...
424. Cesnola's Cyprus, Again in Print [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... black and gold, the design of which has been derived from the original binding. A Foreword has been contributed by Dr. Stuart Swiny, an acknowledged expert on Cypriot archaeology and Director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia, who writes, "Seeing that Cesnola's life reads like a novel, there is perhaps little wonder that ... to this day. James Bendon Ltd. have published a facsimile reprint of this important, fascinating and widely sought classic, making it again available to researchers, historians, archaeologists, the general public, and those with an interest in the island of Cyprus. This 528 page hardback reprint of the 1878 New York edition, with its 61 ...
425. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... book, 12th Planet , by Zecharia Sitchin, in the April 1979 issue of WORKSHOP. Mr. McIlmoyle summarizes the story-line but says nothing of the plausibility of the author's archaeology and astronomy, and nothing of the author's credentials. (The publisher of the U.S . edition, in paperback, says not one word about the author ... , and to harmonize it with other historical and religious writings of antiquity by the exhaustively careful evaluation of the translations of clay tablets, stelae, etc., unearthed by archaeologists of the past hundred years. His pattern traces the same story of activity and the same panoply of "gods" from the Romans backward through the religions and mythologies ...
426. The Scandal of Enkomi [Journals] [Pensee]
... . On Cyprus, Aegean culture came into contact with the cultures of the Orient, and particularly with that of Egypt, and unavoidably embarrassing situations were then in store for archaeology. In 1896 the British Museum conducted excavations at the village of Enkomi, site of Alasia, the ancient capital of Cyprus, not far from Famagusta, with A ... possible that the Mycenae and Enkomi vases are seven or eight centuries older?" Analyzing the workmanship and design of sphinxes or griffins with human forelegs on a vase, the archaeologist stressed "its relationship, on the one hand, to the fragmentary vase of Tell-el-Amarna (see Petrie, Tell-el-Amarna, Plate 27) and a fragment of fresco from ...
427. Miscellaneous [Journals] [Pensee]
... , Fort Worth, Texas 76116) or write to R. E. Fields, Mail Zone 5984, General Dynamics Convair Aerospace Management Club, Fort Worth, Texas. ARCHAEOLOGY IN 2973 A.D . Frederic B. Jueneman, in his Innovative Notebook column (Industrial Research, February, 1973, 15), describes an archaeological expedition ... , 1973. Engagements at neighboring institutions may also be arranged immediately to follow or precede the Langley lecture. THE (DIS)ORIENTATION OF THE PYRAMIDS. In 1940 the archaeologist Flinders Petrie, having surveyed the pyramids of Giza, found that their general alignment is four minutes west of north. Now his observations have caught the attention of the ...
428. Underwater man-made wall [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... under the waters of the Pescadores Islands that could be at least six and seven thousand years old. Steve Shieh, the head of the planning committee for the Taiwan Underwater Archaeology Institute, said the wall was discovered to the northwest of Tong-chi Island in the Pescadores towards the end of September. ...
429. The Crystal Sun, by Robert Temple (Review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... museums such as the Cuming and Petrie Museums, where no one seems to be arrogant.) '. To give a single example from Temple's researches: in the Athens Archaeological Museum there is one of these collections of unnoticed' lenses dating from 13th-16th century BC. In the Acropolis Museum there is a vase of 4th Century BC showing a ... Layard lens is hardly anomalous but that numerous lenses - more than 450 at Temple's last count - have been excavated from the Bronze Age onwards but have been largely unrecognised by archaeologists. They lie around in the world's museums labelled as grave goods' or mineralogical specimens' because science knows' that the science of optics did not develop until the ...
430. Seahenge by Francis Pryor (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is not necessary to envisage a new population arriving around 4000BC, bringing the knowledge of farming and clearing the land for cereals etc. A few people may have arrived but archaeologically they are elusive. This is interesting and runs counter to other archaeologists (e .g . Colin Renfrew), who believe that farming peoples spread out fan-wise from ... and the Near East and peripheral peoples they encountered were either dislocated or adopted the new way of life. One item of evidence, often cited a few years ago, was that evidence of landscape fires in ancient Europe marked the progress of these early farmers, who were assumed to practice slash and burn methods, planting crops for a few ...
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