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176 pages of results. 251. Ancient Near Eastern Chronology: To Revise or not to Revise? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Catastrophism and Ancient History XIV:1 (Jan 1992) Home | Issue Contents Ancient Near Eastern Chronology: To Revise or not to Revise?Phillip Clapham Cosmic Disaster In C&AH XII:2 Sean Mewhinney ... ice cores or tree rings (unlike vulcanism) or even in C14 levels. The tells of the ancient Near East remain mute witness to a recurring horror- the desert zone has preserved its evidence so well. Shifts of population ... be adduced by cultural divergences between succeeding archaeological phases. These in the main are movements to and from adjacent regions. Sometimes, there is evidence of long distance migrations, particularly after the development of mobile horse mounted cultures- and ...
252. On Dayton and Dating [Journals] [SIS Review]
... SISR III:4 , 1979, pp. 81-3. Dayton's book rightly questions the conventional chronology of the ancient Near East, and provides a huge compendium of data in favour of lower dates for the Late Bronze Age. However ... Dayton's own revised time-scale does not always make the best sense of the evidence. In particular, his proposed revision of the history of glazing techniques incorporates some unsound reasoning. Dayton traces the beginnings of clay glazing to the 15th century ... The apparent gap in glazing techniques between the 12th and 9th centuries leads Dayton to question the soundness of ancient Near Eastern chronology: "In fact one wonders if there was ever a Third Intermediate, or Dark Age, between 1200 ...
253. Introduction - Ages in Chaos? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of Akhenaten and his immediate successors, generally believed to be around 1350 BC. Similarly, inscriptions at the Ramesseum near Luxor in southern Egypt and at Boghazköy were found to refer to the battle of Kadesh, fought between Ramesses II ... history of Palestine had to fit the chronology established for Egypt [20]. As for the ancient civilisations further east, classical writers were aware of the Assyrians in northern Mesopotamia and the Babylonians in the south. In similar fashion ... as described in II Chronicles chap. 12) was Shoshenq I of the 22nd Dynasty. The Bubastite, or eastern, portal at Karnak in southern Egypt describes a campaign carried out by Shoshenq I in Palestine [17]. ...
254. Psychology and Ancient Astronomical Discovery [Journals] [Kronos]
... The same revaluation of cultural complexity has been underway for the Mesolithic and Neolithic ages which follow. In the Ancient Near East substantial settlements, food surpluses, and commercial trade are in evidence from early Mesolithic times. By late Mesolithic ... early Neolithic times, controlled agriculture and animal husbandry are already well developed. Religious shrines oriented to the cardinal points are decorated with symbolic painting and sculpture reminiscent of Upper Paleolithic traditions. Some examples prefigure the symbols for astronomic gods of ... passage of time as marked by the apparent movements of these objects."(21) Like the Ancient Near Eastern cultures, Mesoamerican religious beliefs and festivals, temple orientation, city ground plans,(22) divine identifications of ...
255. The Israelite Conquest of Canaan [Journals] [Aeon]
... ). The claim made in this study implies that the historical eras relating to the archaelogical stratigraphy of the ancient Near East are recorded by the text books in two places: once in their correct historical place in the very late ... and in the first millennium before our era, and again- some 1500 years later (or even 2000 years for the first stages of advanced civilization)- as phantom empires of the third and early second millennium B.C ... E . Expressed in other words: this reconstruction proposes that of the eight major ancient Near Eastern eras after the Stone Age and before the rise of Hellenism recorded in our history books (that is, between about -3000 and -300 ...
256. The Sea Peoples and the Philistines [Articles]
... I felt this was particularly sad as the Philistines were such an important, although geographically limited, focus in the Near East. Their cultural connections extend on a broad view from Sardinia and the Mycenaean culture of Greece through Egypt, ... and the civilisation of the Canaanites to the empire of the Assyrians. This being the case, I thought that as well as having a chance of studying a fascinating and rather enigmatic people I could also indulge in one of my ... you could probably read this sort of thing in the Cambridge Ancient History or dozens of other text-books on ancient Near Eastern history: "We know from the Old Testament that the Philistines came from the Aegean, since the island of ...
257. Ras Shamra (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... Shamra Immanuel Velikovsky The Timetable of Minoan and Mycenaean Culture On a spring day in 1928 a peasant plowing his field near the shore of Ras Shamra in northern Syria lifted the stone of a burial vault. In 1929 and in the ... a point on the Syrian coast opposite the elongated arm of land stretching out from Cyprus toward the mainland on the east. On a bright afternoon the island can be seen from the hills surrounding Ras Shamra. The place was tentatively ... name is also found later among the Spartans. In the third century Nikomedes I, king of Bithynia on the eastern shore of the Bosphorus, built a new capital for himself, Nikomedeia. 15. Hrozný and E. Dhorme ...
258. Minerals, Metals, Glazing and Man, by John Dayton, Reviewed by Geoffrey Gammon [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... of glazed objects appearing in what were clearly anachronistic contexts, in terms of the accepted chronology of the Aegean and Near East in the Bronze Age. This disturbing development obliged him to widen the scope of his inquiry to embrace the ... as well as the invention and spread of metallurgy and the technology of glazing. In his book Minerals, Metals, Glazing and Man,2Dayton states his considered view that "the technical and geological evidence was in direct contradiction to ... mined during the third millennium B.C ., and shows conclusively how knowledge of metalworking spread from central and eastern Europe, via Anatolia, to the Near East (poor in metal ores) early in the second millennium. ...
259. In Memoriam: Dr Claude Schaeffer-Forrer, 1898-1982: An Appreciation [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of what The Times described in its obituary as "the dwindling band of excavators belonging to the Heroic Age of Near Eastern Archaeology between the two world wars". Claude Frédéric Antoine Schaeffer was born at Strasbourg in March 1898. ... first published work dealt with prehistoric burial mounds in the forest of Hagenau. However, it was the Ancient Near East which was to prove both a life-long interest for more than five decades and the basis of his reputation as one ... the greatest archaeologists in a period during which people of the calibre of Mortimer Wheeler, Max Mallowan, Pierre Montet and many others were also active. Schaeffer's reputation in his own field rests primarily on his work as director of the ...
260. Sothis and the Morning Star in the Pyramid Texts [Journals] [Aeon]
... (34) It is commonly acknowledged, moreover, that Aphrodite's cult was influenced by religious concepts from the ancient Near East, where the Sumerian Inanna and Akkadian Ishtar among others were identified with the planet Venus. (35) ... is significant that Isis shared numerous characteristics in common with these Near Eastern Venus-goddesses. One of Isis' most prominent functions, as is well-known, was as a goddess of lamentation. (36) The same function is shared by ... , who in an early Babylonian hymn is invoked as the "star of lamentation". (37) One of Isis' most common epithets, "Queen of Heaven", while otherwise unknown in the traditions surrounding Sirius, ...
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