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220 pages of results. 171. Kintraw and Bibby (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... with regard to what petrofabric analysis can and cannot accomplish. For this purpose I have prepared a separate work which amply demonstrates that petrofabric analysis cannot be utilised as a reliable archaeological tool. I would therefore ask the reader to evaluate the points presented in that work(1 ) before perusing my reply to the few relevant arguments raised by Bibby ... geomorphologists (e .g . Albjarr, Rehn, and Stromquist 1979; McCann 1961). It is an accepted method with a statistically sound basis and I make no apologies for using it. McCreery's main misunderstanding of my approach is that he failed to realize that the first sieve in any comparison of samples is to examine the geomorphological contexts ...
172. Crazy Heroes of Dark Times [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and he was the father of their present King, Alcinous, who is in the prime of life. The excavations of Schliemann and Blegen at Hisarlik were valuable as ordinary archaeology; they contributed almost nothing to solve "the Homeric Questions." What we derive from their reports is an important negative: if either Schliemann's Troy or Blegen's Troys ... that was associated with Egyptian ware and therefore assigned the Egyptian dates because these were the basis of Near Eastern chronology. The Phrygians, however, are honored by their own archeological and historical dating system and Gordius is said to be of the eighth century before Christ. Table Hypothetical Benchmarks: Planetary Encounters and Historical Coincidences Calendar date (B . ...
173. Conclusion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ] Hence the attempt to establish the authenticity of Biblical passages has depended largely upon linguistic analysis, and, to a lesser degree, upon internal consistency, comparative history and archaeology - all supervised by logical and anthropological speculation. Linguistic analysis allows an expert to criticize and perhaps rearrange passages in accord with what is known of the progress of the ... enemy, the finding of food and drink, the punishment of sinners by god's fire, and so on to all significant miracles. They are demonstrable by ordinary rules of anthropology relating to a group interacting with nature to produce recognizable cultural behavior. Much of the non-miraculous but apparently nonsensical - the clothing, the taboos, the prayers, the ...
174. Olympia [Journals] [Kronos]
... in due course "archaic" art developed into "classical" art. This scheme was accepted, and today, with only slight variations, it is the credo of archaeological art. Dörpfeld insisted that the geometric ware ascribed to the first millennium was actually contemporaneous with, and even antecedent to, the Mycenaean art of the second millennium, ... (Munich, 1925),I , 304ff. 6. Ibid., p. 314ff. 7. See G. A. Wainwright in Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology (Liverpool, 1914), VI, 24-83. 8. "Dieser geometrische Stil sei uralt, habe vor und neben der mykenischen Kunst bestanden und sei auch durch ...
175. EARLY GLASSMAKING AND CHRONOLOGICAL PUZZLES [Journals] [Aeon]
... /Mainz am Rhein). The information available now on early Mesopotamian glass, while considerably greater than before, is still incomplete and full of gaps. The philological and archaeological evidence are both related but do no show a parallel development, nor do they share the same history. The glass objects do not illustrate' the history of this ... was also used in Amarna is not at all farfetched because the two periods both belong to the 7th / 6th century B.C .E . Yet conventional Egyptological and Assyriological chronologies place these areas 700 to 800 years apart, giving them absolute dates too high by some 1500 and 750 years respectively. The Mitanni glassware in North Mesopotamia is ...
176. Imaginary and Expected Catastrophes: Apocalyptic Desire and Scientific Prognosis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Franz Xaver Kugler [13] and Immanuel Velikovsky [14], whose hundredth anniversary provides the occasion for this meeting. Claude F. Schaeffer [15] contributed the archaeological traces for the mega-destructions of the Bronze Age: Our investigation has shown that these successive crises, which ushered in and concluded the principal phases of the 3rd and 2nd ... were right so far. Two and a half millennia could not prove them wrong. This may well be a world record of non-falsification. The great rabbis also turn against astrology by denying such influence upon Israel "which has no planet". Genesis 15:5 is interpreted as meaning that God said to Abraham Thou art a prophet and ...
177. Interdisciplinary Indiscipline [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , it seems to me that on your theory we can link comets not only with astronomy, with palaeontology [extinctions], geology [magnetic reversals, etc], archaeology [2nd millennium BC biblical catastrophes, etc], mythology [gods = planets, etc] history [revised Egyptian chronology, etc].... So ... well-behaved, near circular path. Carl Sagan by Rosemary Burnard'... a sort of scientific Billy Graham, rescuing hapless souls from the clutches of paranormal phenomena, astrology, catastrophism and other perversions and offering them salvation through the true faith of Science. ' (Brian Moore)] The Omniscient Asimov In 1974 the ubiquitous (and ...
178. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: C&C Review 2004:3 (Incorporating C&C Workshop 2004:4 ) Home | Issue Home Bookshelf The Archaeology of the Afterlife – Tony Allan. Duncan Baird. £16.99 An investigation of bodies and tombs worldwide, which casts new light on the beliefs and rituals of ancient peoples. Archaeology an ... research into the Neolithic monuments in the Orkneys. Out of Antarctica – Robert Argod. Periplus (paperback). £25.00 A controversial theory drawing on myths, anthropology and archaeology of the peoples of the Pacific. The author concludes that they originated in Antarctica. After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC – ...
179. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: C&C Review 2004:3 (Incorporating C&C Workshop 2004:4 ) Home | Issue Home Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology R. M. Porter Bietak's Review of Manning In the last issue I complained about the lack of progress in getting recognition of the conflict between scientific' dates and orthodox historical dates ... but I am using them relatively as showing a pre-Empire date). Further publication is awaited. Freemasons and the Stars John Michell, in his book A Little History of Astro-Archaeology, Thames & Hudson, 1977 (updated 1989), makes the suggestion that behind the old Masonic practice of laying the axes of temples towards sunrise or the appearance ...
180. Hazor and the anachronisms in the chronology of the Ancient Near East [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 1968, Yigael Yadin returned to dig. For the time being - after the death of Aharon Kempinsky - Amnon Ben-Tor (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) is in charge of archaeological work in Hazor. Kempinsky was especially interested to find Iron Age archives from the time of the Kingdom of Israel in the upper city (1200 to 300 BC) ... Continuity of settlement - not doubted for Hazor - and also proven for Mari by continuity of material culture and absence of windblown aeolian' layers (1 ) Old-Babylonian archive (Assyriological Abraham date) (1 ) Old-Babylonian tablets (Abraham date) Continuity of settlement proven by continuity of material culture and absence of windblown aeolian' layers (2 ) ...
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