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176 pages of results. 71. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1999:2 (Feb 2000) Home | Issue Contents Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology R.M . Porter Carbon Dating and East Mediterranean Upwelling Doug Keenan, a mathematician and geo-scientist, ... at this year's meeting of the IUGG (the main international conference for earth scientists) that BC carbon dates in the East Mediterranean region are erroneously old. He says that this is due to a peculiar circulation pattern which resulted in ... sea water upwelling in the E. Mediterranean. These ancient waters then exchanged carbon with the atmosphere (a normal process) and onshore winds spread the aged carbon dioxide well inland where it was absorbed by plants and eventually resulted in ...
72. Ice Cores and Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , had also realised that there was a problem gap of some 200 years at about 1700 to 1500BC in the Near East, which he suggested might have been due to an earthquake or other natural event. He uncovered a thick ... of dust at Ras Shamra. In my study of ancient technology I found similar gaps with, for example, tin bronzes in Mesopotamia a thousand years before they reached next door Syria. Since the beginnings of archaeology some two hundred ... identification of the Minoans by Sir Arthur Evans as a separate people from the Mycenaeans has been most unfortunate for Middle Eastern archaeology. The third source of chronology for archaeologists was the Bible, in particular the Old Testament. Near Eastern ...
73. Sodom and Gomorrah's Location and Destruction [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... generally agreed that Zoar was in the southern part of what is now the shallows of the Dead Sea, somewhere near the Lisan or tongue of land which juts into the sea. It was to Zoar that Lot retreated in order ... see map). Abraham went south with his troops and stayed at Hebron. Lot took his forces to the east. As Genesis expresses it, "So Lot chose for himself the whole Jordan plain, and set out eastward ... Beth-Shean, Beth-Nimrah, Jericho, and En-Gedi, protecting the vital approaches of the north and west. On the eastern side a natural mountain barrier was supplemented by a number of fortified cities of the Rephaim, giant and fierce warriors ...
74. The Environment And Preservation Of The Mammoth [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... planks which can only come from well-wooded regions. This is further supported by research of the Shandrin River mammoths, near the Arctic Ocean, which contained a great mass of frozen viscera (some 600 pounds) inside its rib cage ... 080 feet above sea level requires whatever ice existed on Greenland or permafrost that must have existed, deteriorated drastically. East of Greenland is Iceland, of which Dyson has told us that "birch trees far larger than anything growing in ... by Kozmin, is characteristic of the construction of these animals.... "The presence of beavers in eastern Siberia...in the remote era of the mammoth and rhinoceros was demonstrated by Cherskiy, who observed that ...
... . 471 CHAPTER XXIX. land, and of the be Evidence of the same afforded by the Temple of Serapis near Naples . . . 493 Elevation and subsidence of dry bed of the sea during earthquakes les CHAPTER XXX. Elevation ... geological facts, which attracted the attention of a people less civilized than were many of the older nations of the East. The historian Ferishta relates that fifty thousand laborers were employed in cutting through a mound, so as to form ... junction between the rivers Selima and Sutlej ; and in this mound were found the bones of elephants and men, some of them petrified, and some of them resembling bone. The gigantic dimensions attributed to the human bones show them ...
76. An Integrated Model for an Earthwide Event at 2300 BC. Part II: The Climatological Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , p.30) Figure 6: Climatic Curve Based on Coiling Direction of Foraminifera, Obtained from Deep-Sea Core Near Bermuda Showing Ocean Temperature Decrease at About 2300 BC (J . Abery, after T. K. Turekian, ... article and the cultural discontinuities in my first article. In areas which suffered climatic deterioration, such as the Middle East, India and Mexico, there were decreases in population as well as cultural regressions. In the Sahara desert and ... and may persist for long time periods. Dust from the frequent squalls in the Sudan is spread by the prevailing easterly winds; so that for much of the year the whole of west and central Africa from 5 to 30 degrees ...
77. The Nature of Venus' Heat [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... explain the high temperature of Venus by straightforward uniformitarian processes. This model worked its way into both scientific thought and nearly every astronomy textbook, becoming the only other theory about Venus' high temperature besides the catastrophist model presented by Velikovsky ... air masses are also feeling the influence of the Earth's rotation and, thereby, are forced to veer toward the east in both hemispheres as they leave the equatorial regions. Because the air masses at the equator are moving zonally at ... , too, we see the same dismissal of evidence! Pollack sums up the case being made: "The east-west winds on Venus blow in the direction of the planet's rotation at all latitudes." (75) The question ...
78. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Issue Contents The Saturn Problem by Peter J. James Peter James describes himself as a generalist' in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. He graduated in Ancient History and Archaeology at Birmingham University and pursued postgraduate research in Ancient History ... London University. Peter has published numerous articles on ancient chronology, technology and the history of science, in both academic and popular journals. He is the principal author of Centuries of Darkness, author of The Sunken Kingdom (1995 ... made the identification because Babylonian astrology had made it already, and the western tradition here simply drew on its older eastern relative. [26] I would agree with Beck that a Babylonian origin for the Greek idea seems likely. ...
79. Noah's Vessel: 24,000 Deadweight Tons [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... identical results. A more complete description of their conclusions can be found in Fasold's book, including commentary on finding nearly 5400 ferromagnetic (iron) readings, in patterned location, throughout the Ark formation.1 The largest wooden vessel ... it was broken loose about the time the vessel began its final voyage to the beach site several miles to the east. Material such as this was smeared on the Ark deck for water runoff and to protect the reed mat from ... urine. A reed mat that might well have been in the first stages of disintegration. This would help motivate Noah to find a berth soon, using the winds and anchors to navigate (I think it likely that the outflow ...
80. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Six [Books]
... ago between Godthaab and Christianshaab they had heard a cracking noise. Their medicine men had told them that it was nearly rotten and hardly held together and if the sky were to fall down it would kill all men (p . ... than 100 feet. Its light was dazzling and of a reddish- white. It passed to the south- east of the sun, throwing off on all sides sparks which made a kind of rain of fire and which lasted ... with the Evening Star and the Moon as their rulers. Each had their village in the heavens, and the eastern stars knew that the western stars were women. After awhile some of the eastern stars sought the western stars in ...
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