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383 pages of results. 281. Chapter 15 Dark Ages Based on Dark Scholarship [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... ), p. XIV Renfrew has placed his finger on a very basic problem for dating a period of Greek history known as the Greek Dark Age. This period of time from around 1200 to 800 B.C . seems ... show that there was no Greek Dark Age. The book, generally aimed at those with a good deal of historical knowledge, should be read. Furthermore, why didn't the Phoenicians exploit this market by selling the Greeks fine jewelry ... colonies in the west), and is based on the foundation dates' for these colonies given by such respected historians as Thucydides. But no one has ever explained to me why we should pin our faith on dates given by ...
... describes the physical events on earth and in the heavens, whereas Ages in Chaos deals with the social and political histories. In the recorded history of Egypt as conventionally interpreted, Velikovsky says, one finds no references to events of ... " he sought to realign certain celestial chronologies. In "Ages in Chaos" he assayed a similar chore for historical and cultural timetables. Now he tackles the very sequence and timing of geochronology and the processes of organic evolution. ... by little, time and space are getting into step according to the good doctor's pace and cadence! . . . I have never doubted that Velikovsky reads widely- if not always wisely and well.. . . [198 ...
283. Calibrated Radiocarbon and the 'Methodological Fault-Line' [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Methodological Fault-Line'by Bernard Newgrosh As long ago as 1979 the distinguished pre-historian James Mellaart tried to propose a stretched history to accommodate the results of calibrated radiocarbon dating [1 ]. He was criticised by J. Weinstein [2 ... that there can be problems in applying calibrated radiocarbon dates - they are often on the old side compared to the historical chronology. Thus R. D. Long, in 1976, presented a comprehensive set of dates ranging from Early ... better correlation between uncalibrated ages and the historical chronology. The application of calibrated radiocarbon dates created for the archaeologists and historians similar problems to those of the pre-historians, albeit on a less grand scale. For example, in 1980, ...
284. "VELIKOVSKY AND THE RECENT HISTORY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM" [Journals] [Pensee]
... 3: (Summer 1974) "Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered VIII" Home | Issue Contents "VELIKOVSKY AND THE RECENT HISTORY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM"Report on the symposium Compendium, Review "Some people will come here with questions. ... to Dr. John Lynde Anderson.) Could planetary orbits have reversed their order of distance from the Sun in historical times? (Yes, if you are listening to Prof. Robert W. Bass, celestial mechanician.) ... at all clear how such an approach may be successfully executed. Certainly not by entrusting discussions on celestial mechanics to historians, or the analysis of myth to physicists. Nor simply by scheduling separate sessions for physicists, mathematicians, historians ...
285. Velikovsky In Collision [Journals] [Kronos]
... Middle Kingdom in Egypt about 1500 B.C .- is heterodox. It requires a general bringing-forward of Egyptian history by at least 500 years. What Velikovsky attempts to show in Ages in Chaos is that his revised chronology not ... can resolve long-standing historical enigmas, but produces uniquely good "fit" among Egyptian, Jewish, and other ancient eastern histories. This new version of eighteenth-century geological catastrophism has been developed with extraordinary ingenuity by its author. It has ... a gale of derision and denunciation that is blowing intermittently still. I do not know of any such reaction by historians, archaeologists, geologists or palaeontologists to Earth in Upheaval. But it is perfectly safe to assume that if there ...
286. Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... the mosaic deluge." (16) "In short, a sketch of the progress of geology is the history of a constant and violent . . . struggle of new opinions against doctrines sanctioned by the implicit faith of many ... think Velikovsky supports' not the Bible, but the general idea that some myths of all peoples are based on historical events. In other words, this group of readers did not get the message The Bible is true' but ... . 360. Three years after the AAAS symposium on Velikovsky, Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of Geology and science historian at Harvard University, took aim at Velikovsky with an essay, "Velikovsky in Collision." (1 ) ...
287. Chapter 4 Scientific ? Radiocarbon Dating [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , Nos. 1, 2, 3 historical standpoint, then what we have is not good science or good history, but rogue science and rogue history. To uphold their belief in the established chronology, historians are required to ... Radiocarbon Project team reports in Archaeology that there is "fair agreement between our radiocarbon dates and [conventionally accepted] historical dates for the Middle Kingdom. . . . [But when they] sampled the Middle Kingdom of Dynasty 12 ... the pyramid of Amenemhet I, this scenario is simply pulled from thin air. Fischer, as a critic of historians' fallacious reasoning, maintains in his chapter on "Fallacies of Factual Verification," "that erroneous understandings of ...
288. The Stratigraphical Chronology of Ancient Israel [Journals] [Aeon]
... Ancient Israel Gunnar Heinsohn I. Ancient Israel Debunked? he fundamentalistically computed biblical dates for the major events in the history of ancient Israel cannot be convincingly synchronized with the stratigraphical sequence of the land's archaeological sites. This want of harmony ... pious dates and tried to accommodate them in their stratigraphies. Hence, it became ever more fashionable to discard the historical information contained in the biblical legends. Scholars from Israel and the rest of the world try to convince their bewildered ... to be chosen as the starting point for the reconstruction of Israel's history. It is in the uninterrupted stratigraphy that historians should look for the archaeological environment that would fit the historical legends of the Hebrew Bible. Its compilers were not ...
289. Minds in Chaos [Books] [de Grazia books]
... be followed by a deluge of fire. This picture of a period of intense turmoil within the period of recorded history is supported by a wealth of quotations from the Old Testament, from the Hindu Vedas, from Roman and Greek ... would constitute crucial tests for his thesis, which was essentially three-fold: (1 ) There were global catastrophes in historical times; (2 ) these catastrophes were caused by extraterrestrial agents; and (3 ) these agents, in ... most recent of the catastrophes, can be identified as the planets Venus and Mars, Venus playing the dominant role. All three postulates would be largely substantiated if it could be shown that, contrary to all conventional expectations, Venus ...
290. Foreword and Introduction to Ages in Chaos [Velikovsky]
... midst of a natural upheaval and that this catastrophe might prove to be the connecting link between the Israelite and Egyptian histories, if ancient Egyptian texts were found to contain references to a similar event. I found such references and before ... Worlds in Collision, I have devoted myself to organizing the evidence from geology and prehistory to supplement the literary and historical evidence of cosmic catastrophism, and to writing Earth in Upheaval, only little concerned with the storm aroused by my ... peace of mind of a powerful group of astronomers and other textbook writers, I offer here major battle to the historians. The two volumes of the present work will be as disturbing to the historians as Worlds in Collision was to ...
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