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173 pages of results. 121. On Number As Artifact (Part 1: Introduction) [Journals] [Horus]
... today would find encouraging, especially perhaps those who consider themselves students of man's cultural evolution. If culture is what makes us human, then (according to this view) archaeology is not going to be able, in the final analysis, to tell us very much about ourselves. This dark cloud, however, just may have a bright ... Fisher Music was still a science when a medieval monk drew this diagram of the relationship between the seven Liberal Arts. Musica is at lower right "Culture," an archaeologist once observed, "is highly perishable and therefore cannot be excavated. "( 1 ) This is not an attitude most today would find encouraging, especially perhaps those ...
122. The Case for Catastrophe in Historical Times [Journals] [Kronos]
... some hitherto neglected evidence will suffice to reopen the case for historical catastrophe. A NEW APPROACH There are two kinds of evidence which could create a case for historical catastrophe: archaeological and literary. To judge from the writings of the majority of the world's top men in the field of archaeology, there is no case. It can be objected ... in shaping the geological history of Earth, such ideas are being debated and would appear to be gaining acceptance. By way of contrast, the reaction of most scientists and archaeologists to the idea that global catastrophes may have shaped Earth's more recent past - in particular, during historical times - has been one of outright rejection. A few daring ...
123. Centuries of Darkness? - a Challenge to the Conventional Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Issue Contents Reviews Centuries of Darkness? - a Challenge to the Conventional Chronology a review by Geoffrey Gammon Centuries of Darkness: a challenge to the conventional chronology of Old World archaeology by Peter James, in collaboration with I. J. Thorpe, Nikos Kokkinos, Robert Morkot and John Frankish Published by Jonathan Cape (London), 1991 and ... area, almost without exception, serious anomalies came to light which created the need for a radical re-assessment of orthodox chronologies. Most of these anomalies have already been noted by archaeologists working in their own specialized fields and have thus been addressed in isolation. Because of their confidence in the overall chronological framework within which they were working, they have ...
124. Jericho [Journals] [Kronos]
... both in walking distance of a few hours: a fortified city that fell in a very definite moment of history is a desideratum and a prize that are matchless- and archaeological fervor sensed that here great discoveries awaited the diggers. But it was not until 1907 that E. Sellin and C. Watzinger, German archaeologists, after having obtained ... his winter palace and a Roman theater close to the site. It was the Jericho that succumbed in the most dramatic circumstances, its great wall tumbling down, that beckoned archaeologists from the very first. A mound, visible from afar, covered the ancient city and its wall; an Arab village grew up nearby because of the clean springs ...
125. Reassessing the Date of the Arabah Copper Mines [Articles]
... Reassessing the Date of the Arabah Copper Mines Dr. John Bimson Peter James introduces Dr. John Bimson, the leading pioneer in applying Velikovsky's work to the field of Biblical Archaeology: "John studied at the Biblical Studies Department at Sheffield University where he graduated with a Ph.D . His thesis was on the subject of the date of ... in the Arabah". The inspiration initially came from two articles that Dr. Eva Danelius wrote in 1976 which appeared in Kronos, where she highlighted a major disagreement among archaeologists over the date of copper mines in the Arabah in South Palestine, noting that two sets of dates were in conflict, a set of dates in the monarchic period ...
126. New Archaeological Dates for the Israelite Conquest Part II [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Catastrophism and Ancient History X:2 (July 1988) Home | Issue Contents New Archaeological Dates for the Israelite Conquest Part II Proposals for an MB IIC Conquest William H. Stiebing, Jr.The two most comprehensive cultural breaks in Palestinian archaeology occur at the end of the Early Bronze III Age and at the end of ... at Tel Malhata instead of Tel Arad and Hormah at Tel Masos). [12] Some sites, however, would still present difficulties. Et-Tell, which almost all archaeologists and biblical scholars agree is the site of Ai, was not occupied in the Middle or Late Bronze periods. [13] So, the only way supporters of ...
127. Can There be a Revised Chronology Without a Revised Stratigraphy? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... IN AN ARTICLE which appeared in Pensée in 1973, W. H. STIEBING claimed that "Velikovsky's revised synchronisms for ancient history cannot be reconciled with the stratigraphical evidence of archaeology" [1 ]. One of Stiebing's objections to Velikovsky's chronology relies on the supposed association of Hyksos objects with pottery of the Middle Bronze II period in Palestine. ... do, including dramatic evidence of burning [28]. The "latest possible date" for this destruction is said to be the reign of Thutmose III, with some archaeologists preferring an earlier date [29]. We may readily identify this destruction as the work of Solomon's father-in-law. From the period between this destruction and the LB II ...
128. A CRITICAL RE-APPRAISAL OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... such as Graf (d .1869) and Julius Wellhausen (d .1918). Compared to the Graf-Wellhausen method, the conclusions of which pre-date practically all the major archaeological discoveries of the past 100 years[1 ], our synthesis, based on genuine archaeological discoveries, is modern. And from the perspective of 20th century data derived ... the facts and is obsolete. Because of the newness of the science of archaeology - a science which is only about 150 years old - we can say that from an archaeologico / historical point of view the study of Scripture is still in its infancy. Pre-archaeological theories such as those advanced by Graf and Wellhausen suffer from almost total ignorance of ...
129. Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? [Books]
... Hallstatt spirals - Angular spirals - Curves to right and to left - A. Lang on "natural ornamentation " - H. R. Hall on origin of spiral - Archaeological evidence - Elliot Smith on spiral symbolism - Thunder gods and spiral - A magico-religious symbol. The problem of the spiral, like that of the swastika, not only ... . Greiner in this connexion, "had never spread as far as Hawaii". 1 Anthropologists are divided in opinion regarding the significance of the spiral. Some follow those archaeologists who persistently refer to it as an "art-motif", while others are convinced that it had, wherever found, a definite symbolic value. The latter view may ...
130. Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? [Books]
... Hallstatt spirals - Angular spirals - Curves to right and to left - A. Lang on "natural ornamentation " - H. R. Hall on origin of spiral - Archaeological evidence - Elliot Smith on spiral symbolism - Thunder gods and spiral - A magico-religious symbol. The problem of the spiral, like that of the swastika, not only ... . Greiner in this connexion, "had never spread as far as Hawaii". 1 Anthropologists are divided in opinion regarding the significance of the spiral. Some follow those archaeologists who persistently refer to it as an "art-motif", while others are convinced that it had, wherever found, a definite symbolic value. The latter view may ...
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