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176 pages of results. 311. A Criticism of the Revised Chronology [Journals] [Pensee]
... relative chronology of events and cultural periods against which Velikovsky's theories can be tested. Does the archaeological evidence from the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean favor a chronology in which the beginning of the Hyksos Period is synchronized with the Hebrew ... and the Egyptian Eighteenth Dynasty is contemporaneous with the Israelite monarchy? In Palestine archaeologists have been able to establish a relative sequence of pottery objects and other artifacts based on their occurrence in stratified layers of tells (or mounds) which ... the remains of ancient cities. It is known from the objects found in the remains of the ancient city of Samaria (which was founded in the ninth century B.C . by Omri, King of Israel and destroyed in ...
312. Geomagnetic Reversals? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... other phenomena in the earth's history. Reversals in the polarity of the earth's magnetic field have preoccupied earth scientists for nearly three decades, during which time the topic has taken up much space in the specialist journals. The prevailing assumption ... poles'; but the mechanism for accomplishing this has so far remained obscure. Velikovsky's proposal of a reversal with east and west changing places .. . without a substantial disruption of the mechanical momentum of the rotation or revolution of ... deposits in the Aegean area. Magaritz and Kaufman (1973), in a study of fossil shells in the Eastern Mediterranean, also note an abrupt change in composition at about 3000 BC. The polar wander path, in the ...
313. The Hunting Or Blitzkrieg Theory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... not have dragged the heavy bodies to the same place, and if he made a mammoth trap of some kind near Predmost, the animals would not have patiently walked into the same trap year after year. Obviously, something, ... way to ultimately test the hunting hypothesis, and that has to do with the extinction of elephants in the Near East during historical times. If it can be shown that elephant hunting was ongoing during this early period of human civilization ... that a large population using iron, bronze, horses, and every method possible (from its more advanced status) to kill off the herds which ranged over these lands, took about a thousand years or more to remove the ...
314. An Integrated Model for an Earthwide Event at 2300 BC. Part I: The Archaeological Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... currently works in advanced radar system design. The work of Claude Schaeffer showing widespread destruction at archeological sites in the Near and Middle East due to catastrophic earthquakes around 2300 BC (conventional chronology) can be extended to a global level ... Site destructions, major cultural discontinuities and movements of peoples can be shown to have occurred on an earthwide scale at this time, linked with an unusual disturbance of the Earth's crust. Introduction The mythologies of cultures around the Earth are ... to my model. I have not found any reports of site destructions on Cyprus, south of Anatolia in the eastern Mediterranean. However, there was a reported significant cultural change with the appearance of the Vounous culture which influenced the ...
315. Scientific Evidence for A Major World Catastrophe About 11,500 Years Ago: A Preliminary Selection [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Years Ago: A Preliminary Selection D S Allan and J B Delair Note: all illustrations from When The Earth Nearly Died are reprinted by kind permission of the publisher, Gateway Books. The present celebration of Immanuel Velikovsky's earlier contributions ... original colours, are marvellously preserved. The problem is, however, that the species found come from Africa, East Asia and various American regions. They could never have originally lived together, any more than could many of the ... epoch. The suddenness of the demise of many mastodons has been demonstrated by the discoveries at many localities in the eastern USA of almost entire carcasses, complete with leathery skin and hair, standing vertically (but also occasionally upside-down) ...
316. David, Solomon & Archaeology: Revised Chronologies Compared [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... diagnostic of these are single combat on foot in warfare between major powers and the seemingly very unusual (for the Near East) use of bronze greaves [29]. Solomon's Economic Activities The case of Solomon's Mines' at Timna ... be familiar to most readers. While no credence can be placed on this name per se, it seems very unlikely (as frequently pointed out) that Solomon would have failed to utilise this important resource. The only candidate for ... interdisciplinarian, Robert Drews, has recently argued - generally rather convincingly - that early 12th century' disasters in the eastern Mediterranean world reflect a shift in military pre-eminence from chariots to infantry [28]. However this hypothesis is badly ...
317. Did Thutmose III Despoil the Temple in Jerusalem? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... was the first to publish the text, and by all the later Egyptologists who worked on it. Today, nearly 150 years after the first reading, it has almost become an axiom, and is treated as such by all ... a course that would have serious consequences for the history, not of Egypt alone, but of the entire Middle East," writes Gardiner, when dealing with "the difficult topic of chronology" (10). The scheme ... of the cities refortified by King Solomon (21). Biblical Megiddo has been identified with a mound on the eastern slopes of the Carmel mountain overlooking the valley of Esdraelon. The mound has been extensively excavated and the Biblical statements ...
318. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , and the obstacles placed in his way, Dr Velikovsky is pursuing his studies, and now has several books nearing completion: three on the substance of his theories, others of a general autobiographical character. He remains a faithful ... occasion is supposed to have turned completely over, so that the sun rose in the west and set in the east. Dr Velikovsky argues that between the fifteenth and eight centuries B.C . the length of the year was ... a proud joint achievement of modern historians, archaeologists, and astronomers, and the standard scale against which all Near Eastern histories are calibrated, is too long by an equal number of centuries. The latter alternative seemed just as inconceivable ...
319. The Hyksos and the Archaeology of Palestine [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and the Aegean which occurs in Palestine's LB I strata. She views this pottery as evidence for the widening of Near Eastern trade links under the early XVIIIth Dynasty. There is nothing to justify such a view. It is more ... , of Manetho's XVth Dynasty) is known to us from monuments and other finds from many parts of the Near East. An alabaster vase-lid bearing his name was unearthed during Sir Arthur Evans' excavations at Knossos, Crete (19 ... armies, and the culture of early LB I evidencing the re-establishment of Egyptian power in W. Asia and the eastern Mediterranean. If this is correct, certain things should follow. In the usual view of the Hyksos expulsion, ...
320. 'Worlds in Collision' and the Birth of Monotheism [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to worship a new God. Yahweh was a righteous and living God among the capricious and dying gods of the Near East. He was cosmic in power and abode. He possessed no consort." (2 ). Though ... Jewish sources suggest that monotheism was held as an individual creed in previous periods, it was only at the time of the Exodus that it became a movement creating a whole community with characteristic political forms and attitudes. In other cultures ... Yahweh's covenant meant relinquishing a great deal. It meant, in a word, sacrificing the greatest good ancient Near Eastern religion could bestow - the harmonious integration of man's life with the life of nature. The biblical accounts stress the ...
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