Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

321. Pygmalion, Prince of Tyre, and the el-Amarna Correspondence [Journals] [Kronos]

... . C. Heath & Co., Lexington, Mass., 1969). 41. J. D. S. Pendlebury, The Archaeology of Crete (N . Y., 1965 ed.), p. 300. 42. R. Stuckenrath, Jr. and E. K. Ralph, "University of Pennsylvania Radiocarbon Dates, VIII," Radiocarbon (Yale University, 1965), 7, p. 196. 43. See Pensee, I (May,1972), note one, p. 23; Pensee VI (Winter, 1973-74), pp. 17, 18-19. 44. Samuel A. B. Mercer, The Tell-el ...

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322. The Stones Of Ballochroy [Journals] [Kronos]

... ), pp. 8-9. 36. Ibid., p. 8. 37. Ibid. 38. C. Ruggles, "Megalithic Observatories: A Critique," in the New Scientist (Sept. 16, 1976), p. 579. 39. H.E . Suess, "U .S . Geological Survey Radiocarbon Dates I," in Science, Vol. 120 (Sept. 24, 1954), pp. 471, 472; M. Rubin and H.E . Suess, "U .S . Geological Survey Radiocarbon Dates II," in Science, Vol. 121 (Apr. 8, 1955), pp. 481 ...

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323. On Decoding Hawkins' Stonehenge Decoded [Journals] [Pensee]

... criterion was offered for determining the age of Stonehenge: an antler of a red deer was found under one of the stones and more antlers in the fill of the holes. But as the Lamont Geological Observatory of Columbia University answered (January 4, 1967) to an inquiry: "Antlers and bones are, in general, unreliable for radiocarbon dating." Also the Radiocarbon Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania, in answer to a similar inquiry, let it be known that experience in polar regions proves that antlers are easily contaminated and made to yield invalid dates. The problem of the age of the various phases of construction of Stonehenge should not obscure the obvious fact that, ...

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324. The Exodus Problem and its Ramifications Vol I

... K. A., Suppiluliuma and the Amarna Pharaohs, 1926. L-ARAB Luckenbill, D. D., Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, 1926. L-EA Lloyd, S., Early Anatolia. Penguin Books, 1965. L-EHPA Lloyd, S., Early Highland Peoples of Anatolia. L-RD Libby, W. F., Radiocarbon Dating. Phoenix Series, 1965. M-CEP Macalister, R. A. S., A Century of Excavation in Palestine, 1925. M-HE Maspero, G., History of Egypt. M-P Macalister, R. A. S., The Philistines, 1911 (reprint, 1965). M-SEC MacNaughton D., A Scheme ...

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325. Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [SIS Review]

... Clark Whelton: Velikovsky, Fundamentalism, and the Revised Chronology', paper delivered at the Seventh Annual CSIS Seminar, Haliburton, Ontario, August 1987: Revised 1989 C14, Dendrochronology and the 18th Dynasty (a development of some ideas of Bernard Newgrosh in Review XIII, p. 36) Firstly the bad news: it looks like calibrated radiocarbon dates agree with the conventional chronology in the 14th century BC. Some calibrated C14 results from Tell el-Amarna [1 ] give good agreement with the historical dates for Akhenaten (conventionally 1353-1335 BC). Furthermore, the C14 evidence from Thera seems to be homing in on the 17th century BC [2 ], if anything earlier [i ...

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326. Limitations of Astronomical Dating Methods* [Journals] [Kronos]

... in the year 4242 B.C . has now been repudiated by all scholars. Hayes, et. al., "Chronology," op. cit., p. 1, n. 3. 16. Courville, op. cit., II p. 34, Also see I. Velikovsky, "The Pitfalls of Radiocarbon Dating," Pensee IV (Spring Summer, 1973), pp. 12ff.; T. Mowles, * 'Radiocarbon Dating and Velikovskian Catastrophism," Pensee, Ibid., pp. 19-25- the Ed. 17. Courville, Ibid 18. Ibid., II, p. 35; Also see H. C ...

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327. Decades Of Darkness And Dendrochronology [Journals] [Velikovskian]

... of the city and its gate." ' In essence the method is used to support the chronology rather than test it. Instead of choosing the best statistical match for the placement of a series of tree rings, he chose one of lesser statistical value. Why? Because that was what fit his expectation. This is no different than radiocarbon dating. If the data fits the theory it is kept; if it does not fit it is rejected. Now how does this apply to the other chronologies that go back even farther into the past? Are points in these sequences accepted or rejected on the basis of their correspondence to the expectations of the dendrochronologists? Yes. Fully ...

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328. Velikovsky's "The Dark Age of Greece" [Journals] [Velikovskian]

... periods are unreal." At this point in my review, I have covered about three-fifths of Velikovsky's manuscript. The remaining manuscript is devoted to such topics as "Seismology and Chronology," "Celestial Events in the Iliad," "Changes in Land and Sea," "Pylos," "Linear B Deciphered," and "Radiocarbon Dating." Limitations of time require that I cover the remaining material at a somewhat faster pace. "It appears," Velikovsky writes, "that, in the Iliad, Homer telescoped into a few weeks events that took place in the space of several decades." He then gives us these correlations, based on disturbances in ...

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329. The Oceans [Journals] [Velikovskian]

... the sun and became rather hard-somewhat like baked clay in a kiln. In addition, the remains of land plants that grew in shallow fresh water were also recovered at that depth, again indicating that the fresh water level was much shallower prior to the flooding over of the Black Sea. Plant samples from a wide region were sent to a radiocarbon laboratory to be dated to determine the date of the flood. To the surprise of the geologists, all the items gave the same date, viz., 7,750 years before the present. In essence, the entire Black Sea had been covered by salt water which killed the fresh water plants at the bottom. According to ...

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330. Some Realities about Science. Ch. 15 (Beyond Velikovsky)

... Since all observation and experiment involve "chance" errors of occasionally large magnitude, the discarding of some data is normal, permissible, and expected. The discarded data would naturally be only a small part of all the data obtained; otherwise, possibly, one's hypothesis is wrong and the data correct. Velikovskians have written in outraged tones about radiocarbon tests on articles from Tutankhamon's tomb. Reportedly, the dates obtained were in conflict with conventional chronology and were never published, but would have given some support to Velikovsky's revised chronology (Chapter 5, Something New, Something Old). Now, it would indeed be regarded as scientifically unethical to discard and not report data that would support ...

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