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173 pages of results. 281. The Greek Colonisation Movement - When and Why? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... such a reduction in the chronology would have on the causes of Greek expansion in the Mediterranean. At the same time I will endeavour to give a brief summary of the archaeological evidence for continuity of occupation between the Bronze and Iron Age stratigraphy found at the principal colonisation sites under discussion. This will hopefully show that there are good reasons to ... occur all around the Western Mediterranean for which there is insufficient space here to give any detail. They can best be summarised by a single example of the sort of difficulty archaeologists have found themselves in when using the high chronology as a means of dating artefacts from the region. Quoting the British Museum report on the analysis of material from the ...
282. Folklore: Its Stability and Self-correcting Power [Journals] [Horus]
... Troy. Although possibly mistaken about which of the many levels was Homer's Troy, his conviction that the Iliad contained more truth than fiction was vindicated, and the science of archaeology made a great step forward. According to the consensus of scholars that the Gudrun Epic was little more than a fairy tale in three parts, of which the middle ... 000 miles throughout those parts of Europe named in the Gudrun Epic to examine the evidence, I realized a unique feature which bound each area identified to the others; the archaeologists have uncovered artifacts peculiar to the historical period between 90 B.C . and 50 B.C . If, as the Gudrun Epic claims, Herwig took the ...
283. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... are they really absent? Some have seen signs of ancient deities in the names of the main characters – Marduk for Mordechai, Astarte for Esther, Krishna for Karshena. ARCHAEOLOGY Ancient Farming (New Scientist, 12.7 .03, p. 44; 28.6 .03, p. 20; 22.11.03 ... to 9,500 years ago. Celtic finally arrived in Britain around 3200 BC. Oldest Artwork? (BBC News, 20.10.03.) An Italian archaeologist, Pietro Gaietto, claims to have found in 2001 a rock sculpted into faces that look in opposite directions, like a Janus figure. He believes the rock is ...
284. Introduction - Ages in Chaos? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 12], it is still generally believed that Sothic dating, coupled with other fine-tuning based on observations of lunar cycles, has refined the conclusions from the fragmentary historical and archaeological evidence and produced a chronology for ancient Egypt which is secure within certain limits. New Kingdom dates are thought to be accurate to within 20 years and dates from the ... excluded. On the other hand, some kings not mentioned by Manetho were found in the king lists. Another important source of information was pottery. In particular, the archaeologist William Flinders Petrie established long sequences of pottery-styles linked to written records, e.g . scarabs marked with a king's name [8 ]. From all these various ...
285. The Case for Retaining a Dark Age at the end of the Late Bronze Age. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Bronze Age Phillip Clapham The idea of revising the history of the ancient world involves erasing what have become known as Dark Ages, fragments of history that are little known from archaeology and written documents. Is this admissible, or is it simply convenient? It could be argued that some revisions of history have avoided the plot - they have failed ... great heat: even the earth was cooked to a deep yellow. Therefore more than one episode needs to be taken into account. This is precisely the situation discovered by archaeologists: two major destruction events separated by a period of about one generation - the end of LBIIB and the end of LBIIC. The first event brought numerous refugees to ...
286. An Integrated Model for an Earthwide Event at 2300 BC. Part II: The Climatological Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of two chapters in the book. Introduction This article is the second in a series presenting evidence for a possible earthwide event at 2300 BC. The first article covering the archaeological evidence presented strong indications of site destructions widespread around the globe as well as migrations [1 ]. The climatological evidence in this article shows very distinct climatic changes at ... of Arizona (Doubleday, 1973), p.47 49. T. D. Dillehay, "Late Quaternary Bison Population Changes on the Southern Plains", Plains Archaeologist 19 (1974), pp.180-84 50. Baker, op. cit. [45], p.123 51. Dillehay, op. cit. ...
287. ALL Honorable Men [Books]
... and science in general." (17) This was written in spite of Stiebing's letter which that journal possessed which admitted his "book was a work of history and archaeology, not science." (18) This is the general way in which many of the scientific journals and publications have responded to Velikovsky. For example, in ... Durant had "misinterpreted and even abused the evidence provided by China." These historians in the 1950's should have been able to foretell that in some future time historians and archaeologists would present new evidence on this problem of ancient China's history beyond 776 B.C . The Skeptical Inquirer makes manifest its view of paranormal phenomenon as sheer nonsense. ...
288. PREFACE [Books]
... ancient temples were directed. When I came home I endeavoured to ascertain whether this subject had been worked out. I am afraid I was a nuisance to many of my archaeological friends, and I made as much inquiry as I could by looking into books. I found, both from my friends and from the books, that this question ... which these temples faced. In a series of lectures given at the School of Mines in November, 1890,1 took the opportunity of pointing out that in this way archaeologists and others might ultimately be enabled to arrive at dates in regard to the foundation of temples, and possibly to advance knowledge in several other directions. After my lectures ...
289. Who Were the Assyrians of the Persian Period [Journals] [Aeon]
... with Babylonians of the Persian period may be found in previously published studies. To mainstream Orientalists, the 220 years of Persian rule in Babylonia remained nearly as elusive from an archaeological standpoint as did the same period in Assyria. The author has long challenged this view, which is based on dating schemes derived from a fundamentalist approach to the Bible ... continues the material culture of the Assyrians which supposedly vanished in the late 7th century BCE. (2 ) Pseudo-hiatus of 300 to 750 years which, for chronological reasons, archaeologists write into their excavation reports though material continuity pertains between lower and upper strata. (3 ) Assyrian strata of the post-Mitanni period (lower stratum, up to the ...
290. The Cities of the Plain [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , Courville's compression creates more problems than it solves. [21] Dwardu Cardona Vancouver 1. H. Shanks, "Have Sodom and Gomorrah Been Found?" Biblical Archaeology Review, Vl:5 (1980). 2. H. Shanks, "On the New Site Identifications for Sodom and Gomorrah." Biblical ArchaeoIogy Review , ... intimates. And, in fact, as is now well known, the entire ancient Near East did come to a catastrophic end, bringing to a close that era which archaeologists have termed the Early Bronze Age. As Claude Schaeffer had previously shown, and as many other scholars have since confirmed, the nature and geographical extent of this far ...
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