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76 pages of results. 151. The Kintraw Stone Platform [Journals] [Kronos]
... been resolved in 1969 when Thom stated that a small ledge had been cut into the steep hillside at Kintraw for use as an observation platform.(2 ) An archaeologist, Dr. Euan MacKie, reasoned that the ledge provided a crucial test for the veracity of Thom's ideas; for if the ledge was artificial, or if traces of prehistoric activity were to be found there, this would constitute archaeological proof of the astronomical theories.(3 ) Dr. MacKie's subsequent excavations on the ledge were, however, disappointing and, indeed, embarrassing. Not only was the ledge found to be undoubtedly natural,(4 ) there was an utter lack of the "normal archaeological ...
152. An Ancient Celtic Water Cult: Its Significance in British Prehistory [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. X No. 1 (Fall 1984) Home | Issue Contents An Ancient Celtic Water Cult: Its Significance in British Prehistory Alban Wall Early Celtic civilization in western and northwestern Europe can be distinguished by numerous ritual and cultural trademarks. The one I shall be dealing with here concerns the practice these peoples followed in treating rivers, pools, lakes, wells, and other bodies of water, as entrances to the underworld, and of placing or casting into them various objects as votive offerings. As one authority on the subject stressed: "Springs, wells and rivers are of first and enduring importance as a focal point of Celtic cult practice and ritual ...
153. Prehistoric Astronomy and Ritual, by Aubrey Burl (Review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2001:1 (Apr 2001) Home | Issue Contents Prehistoric Astronomy and Ritual by Aubrey Burl (Shire Publications, Cromwell House, Church Street, Princes Risborough Bucks, HP27 9AA, £4 99) Reviewed by Phillip Clapham Aubrey Burl has written plenty of big books on stone circles, stone rows and megalithic anomalies. In this handy little booklet he condenses an awful amount of data. He looks at the theories of Thom and Hawkins and in a down to earth way points out that many alignments' are difficult to envisage as astronomical orientations. Chap. 1 looks at the puzzle of Ballochroy' and the Kintyre peninsula, in ...
154. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning [Books]
... star-catalogue reproduced by Ptolemy. All these are mentioned with respect even by the astronomers of today; and it is certain that we find in their country the immediate source of most of the constellations as they now appear on our maps, and of the stories connected therewith. Yet these unquestionably are in many cases variations of long antecedent, perhaps prehistoric, legends and observations from the Euphrates, Ganges, and Nile; indeed the Greek astronomers always acknowledged their indebtedness to Chaldaea and Egypt, but gave most of the credit to the latter. While we have few individual star-titles from Greece, the characters of the Argonautic Expedition are largely represented in the heavens; and Saint Clement, followed ...
155. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , tells us) "he is sometimes represented with four heads ( Janus quadrifrons ), because he presided over the four seasons" - so maybe the seasons were still felt to be in need of attentive handling? For myself, however, I would not clutch at this straw. (M . L. OWEN ) Scarborough Sir, Prehistoric art and early religious belief As an art-historian and anthropologist by training, I should like to rescue the Altamira bison, staunch creature though he is, from the weight of interpretation resting on his shoulders as a result of Mike Rowland's contribution (Newsletter, 2, p.7 ). Similarly, the poor horned god', adduced ...
... From: The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain by Comyns Beaumont CD Home | Contents Part Two: The Ante-diluvians Chapter IV Sidelights On "atlantis"" The Greeks have no history upon which they can depend antecedent to the Olympiads. They have no written evidence of any antiquity relating to themselves or other nations." -JUSTYN MARTYR. PLATO represents the islands of Atlantis as highly civilized, possessing arts and crafts, ships and merchandise, and inhabited by the aboriginal race of men descended from the god Poseidon. In course of time corruption and tyranny led to the destruction of this godlike race. A great war ensued which lasted many years, the island being invaded by immense armies of ...
... From: The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain by Comyns Beaumont CD Home | Contents Part One: Britain's Great Antiquity Chapter IV Where The Comet Fell "We must remember that this extinction (of the rhinoceros in Siberia) took place in comparatively recent times and that the animal disappeared from North Asia long after the appearance of man on the earth. . . . We are face to face with a mystery and it is clear the extinction of the rhinoceros all over Siberia must have been brought about by some unusual and tremendous cataclysm accompanied by an extraordinary change in climate.. . . Thus perished the Siberian rhinoceros overwhelmed by a catastrophe both sudden and tremendous." REV. D ...
158. Predicting The Past [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 2000:2 (Dec 2000) Home | Issue Contents Predicting The Past www.knowledge.co.uk/kronos-press/predict.htm Volume III of The Osiris Series: Predicting The Past: An Exploration of Myth, Science, and Prehistory by Roger William Wescott Is the present condition of the world the result of eons of peaceful evolution? Or has Earth been shaped by wrenching catastrophes some of which were recent and widespread enough to have deeply traumatized all of humankind? Did early human societies develop gradually in uneventful natural surroundings, moving incrementally from savagery to civilization? Or did cataclysms forcibly conclude a long period of primitive harmony and precipitate our ...
159. Obituary: Melvin Cook (1911-2000) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... at the SIS 1978 Glasgow Conference, Robert Bass devoted a large part of his lecture to Cook's electrical theory of gravity, which is a sophisticated idea based on the cohesion or negative pressure which is found in plasmas and yields a number of fundamental and interesting predictions [4 , 5]. Bass also commended Cook's work on radioactive dating in Prehistory & Earth Models [6 ] and I wrote a review of this for the SIS in 1988. In the course of preparing the review, I spotted an arithmetical error in his calculation of the age of the Grand Canyon and this led to a fruitful and interesting correspondence on many subjects, from electric gravity and Cook's theories about supernovae ...
160. Graincollection: Human's Natural Ecological Niche -- A Review [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... a highly original model of humanoid phylogeny. The first of these anomalies is the total absence of chimpanzee and gorilla remains from the fossil record of Quaternary Africa. The second is the apparent ineffectiveness of pre-Levalloisian choppers and hand-axes as weapons of the chase or butchering tools. Treviņo solves these problems by discarding the prevalent paleontological view of [the] prehistory of man and apes. Chimpanzees, he says, are descendants of Australopithecus africanus and gorillas [are descendants of] of Australopithecus robustus. Moreover, he claims, the common ancestor of all the humanoids was a glabrous [( furless)], tool-using biped, more like us, physically, than like any of the living pongids ...
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