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263 pages of results. 291. The Earliest Arrival of Celts in the British Isles [Journals] [Kronos]
... linguistically ancestral to the Irish, probably arrived there in the 19th century B.C . - and remained till pushed out by the Britons. Noting that Wall's authority on this question was the astronomer Gerald Hawkins, I was at first inclined to dismiss the statement of consensus as uninformed. But, reading further, I observed that Wall himself dates the Celtic arrival to the Urnfield period of the 12th or 13th century B.C . The three-way discrepancy between my assumption, Hawkins' assertion, and Wall's hypothesis piqued my curiosity; and I began to survey the recent archeological and linguistic literature to see if in fact a consensus had emerged or was emerging. Not unexpectedly, perhaps ...
292. Eclipses in Ancient Times [Journals] [Pensee]
... reappear in a much less formidable version. An astronomer from Michigan subsequently wrote: "Records of ancient eclipses go back to 2137 B.C . If the Earth's rotation had been disturbed only a fraction of the amount Velikovsky claims, these eclipses could not have taken place where and when they were recorded." A Harvard astronomer reduced the date 2137 B.C . to 1062 B.C . If either of them were right, it would still be a devastating attack on the theory of great perturbations and changes in the position and movements of the Earth and the Moon. However, our knowledge of ancient eclipses comes mainly from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century of the ...
293. Rejoinder to Aaronson [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Contents INTERACTION Rejoinder to Aaronson Lester J. Mitcham While it is possible that Brad's suggestions (C &AH XIII:1 , 85-86) for an understanding of the letter from Amunhotep III to Kadashman-Enlil may be valid, such explanations are only required if one accepts a pharaoh who reigned prior to the time of Amunhotep III as Shishak. To date no convincing revision of Egyptian chronology has been offered to support such a conclusion. I therefore see no reason to alter my view that Amunhotep III dates earlier than Solomon. Brad expresses puzzlement that I did not "bring up the 18th Dynasty cartouches found in the foundation of a palace of Adad-nerari I .. ." . This point ...
... obtained by purchase and even the general regions from which they came are unknown. Of course dealers give information as to the exact site from which each piece has come, but for obvious reasons such information must be very largely discounted. Classification of such seals must depend on comparison with a limited group of objects of known provenience and approximately definite date. There are two classes of such objects: (1 ) seal impressions on datable tablets and (2 ) seals found in definite cultural layers at definite sites in the course of conscientiously conducted excavations) [1 ]. There is not yet available enough such material to furnish completely accurate classifications of the seals in the collections. Nevertheless ...
295. Should the European Oak Dendrochronologies be Re-examined? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... M . from the George Washington University (1967) and has worked in the Office of the General Counsel, National Science Foundation since 1972. His previous publications have appeared in Catastrophism and Ancient History, Discussions in Egyptology, C & C Workshop and Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt. Tree-ring based calibrations are routinely applied to C14 dates falling within the time span of the calibration curves or tables. The accuracy of these calibrations depends on the accuracy of the dendrochronological work upon which they are based. While there was once uncertainty as to whether the Californian bristlecone pine calibrations reflected world-wide or regional atmospheric C14/C12 ratios, similar calibrations based on European oak dendrochronologies are now ...
296. A Critique of "Ramses II and His Time" [Journals] [SIS Review]
... name of the ruler concerned (e .g . Psammetichus) are very poor compared with the generally accepted identifications. Chapter I: The Battle of Kadesh-Carchemish In the section entitled "Who was Pharaoh Necho, the Adversary of Nebuchadnezzar?" Velikovsky avoids discussion of the hard data of names and regnal years and emphasises the paucity of historical material dating from the reign of Wehemibre' Neko, usually thought to be the famous Necho II. No records are known of this ruler's foreign wars or major building achievements. This is unfortunate - but it is hardly extraordinary enough to justify Wehemibre' Neko's complete dismissal and the substitution of Ramesses II. As well as the good agreement of his ...
297. And it Came to Pass, in the Days of Amraphel King of Shine'ar: Biblical Veracity and Non-biblical Chronology [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Egyptian records, doubt is in fashion. And if it did happen, when? Current view places it in the thirteenth century B.C .; any deviation (even if it comes from the head of a major Near Eastern department) encounters personal abuse. Was there a conquest of Jericho? If you go along with the above date for the Exodus and adhere to the findings of Kathleen Kenyon, there is absolutely no evidence for a destruction some forty years later, when Joshua supposedly led the Israelites into Canaan. But what if these dates are wrong? If one is ready to follow the biblical narrative, the chronological calculations involved are quite simple. Our starting point ...
298. Monitor. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . The simple solution to glaciers in the tropics' is, of course, pole shift (see below). Other evidence for pole shifts are all the Arctic anomalies, which are parallelled by Antarctic ones. Stumps of deciduous trees found in Antarctica, related to those which grew in South America, Africa, India and Australia, are dated to 270 Myrs ago when Antarctica was supposed to be as far south as it is now but the nearest living trees are 2000 miles away. Even closer in time, ocean floor sediments and lake sediments indicate that Antarctica was warmer between 2500 and 4000 years ago. Another pointer to pole shift are massive, and apparently rapid, changes ...
299. Velikovsky, Mars, and the Eighth Century B.C. Part Two [Journals] [Kronos]
... cite the original work itself. He gave as his references two eighteenth century works by Jesuit scholars in China- the "Traité de l'astronomie chinoise" of Antoine Gaubil and Jean-Baptiste du Halde's Description of the Empire of China.(2 ) Neither contains more than three or four sentences on the matter. In fact, neither gives the full date - only the year, 776 B.C . They both call it an eclipse of the Sun. Velikovsky deliberately avoided even mentioning the word: "the sun was obscured." But isn't this exactly what happens in a solar eclipse? Did Velikovsky have any reason to believe it was anything else, other than his "intuition ...
300. Pot Pourri [Journals] [SIS Review]
... SW France. Bruce Bradley of the Smithsonian Institute claims projectile points made by the Solutrean culture of France c. 15,000 BC [1 ] are virtually indistinguishable from Clovis points. Tracking the origin of Clovis-type blades back through Alaska to Siberia, the presumed provenance of both culture and people, proved a dead end. All blades found dated to around 9,500BC, the time of the extinction of the mammoths, giant armadillos and virtually all American megafauna, leaving a 500-year-plus gap between occurrences of the style in the two continents. This gap was removed when a spear point similar to Solutrean, dated to 14,000BC, was discovered at Cactus Hill. Douglas Wallace ...
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