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76 pages of results. 311. Perilous Planet Earth: Catastrophes and Catastrophism Through the Ages by Trevor Palmer. [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . It deserves to be a set book on many degree courses. The book is in two parts. Part I: Catastrophism: The story of its decline and fall .. . and resurrection' and Part II: Catastrophes and the history of life on Earth'. Part I is divided into three sections. Section A, From prehistory to 1899; catastrophism dominates for centuries, but then gives way to gradualism', section B, From 1900 to 1979: gradualism reigns supreme' and section C, From 1980 to the present day: catastrophism strikes back'. Section A is a very scholarly description of the arguments that raged in the eighteenth and nineteenth century between ...
312. Stukeley Illustrated by Neal Mortimer (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Issue Contents Stukeley Illustrated by Neal Mortimer Green Magic, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, 2003. Reviewed by Phillip Clapham William Stukeley is one of the most famous of all Britain's early antiquarians and field workers – a forerunner of archaeologists who were but a glimmer in the eye during his lifetime, 1687-1765. He was an honest and reliable recorder of prehistoric monuments, something that the professionals have only recently come to appreciate. Stukeley is one of the most important figures in the discovery of the British past. His work at Stonehenge and Avebury has proved to be invaluable because so much has changed in the countryside since his lifetime. There is a recently published biography of Stukeley, which is ...
313. Shattering The Myths Of Darwinism by Richard Milton (Book review) [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , of the type known as uniformitarian (or uniformist, for short). Since the discovery of radioactivity a century ago, this chronology has been based increasingly on the knowledge that radioactive elements, like uranium, decay into related elements and the belief that the rate at which they do so is constant and may reliably be used to date prehistoric objects and events. But Milton shows that every radiological dating technique, at least insofar as it is taken to be invariant, is fallible-often grossly so. He notes, for example, that lava from the Mt. Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, known to have erupted and hardened in 1801, was dated (as rock) by the ...
314. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . c) Elect officers and members of the Council. d) Appoint Auditors. Following the business of the day, there will be a talk given by Nick Thorpe on The Pitfalls of Radio-Carbon Dating'. Nick Thorpe is Director of the ISIS Radio-Carbon Project and Chairman of the Institute's Projects Sub-Committee. He is also a post-graduate student in Prehistoric Archaeology at University College London, with a wealth of practical field experience in the British Isles. At 4.30pm there will be a wine and cheese party for those members wishing to attend (please find the application form enclosed with this issue - UK and European members only). Ancient History Study Group A meeting of the Study ...
315. C&C Workshop 1988, Number 1: Contents [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Low, Middle or High? * Eocene Climate Puzzle * Tectonic Upsets * Earthquake Electrics? * Thera Theories * The Habitable Zone? * Cretaceous Catastrophe? 27 REVIEWS: Origins: Today's Science, Tomorrow's Myth 30 A Guide to Velikovsky's Sources 30 "Bronze to Iron Age Chronology in the Old World: Time for a Reassessment?" 31 Prehistory and Earth Models 32 LETTERS from M. G. Reade, A. H. Rees, C. L. Ellenberger, P. Warlow, M. M. Mandelkehr, T. Lawrence, A. Chavasse, D. Slade & E. Crew, J. Abery and M. Sieff 37 Copyright (C ) May ...
316. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the many problems of both the orthodox chronology of the ancient world and revisionist schemes. Dr. Newgrosh ran briefly through the history of radiocarbon dating and how the first measured dates proved to be a little low but then the seemingly more accurate later datings, after calibration based on tree ring ages, proved to be high. Historians of European prehistory tended to accept these but Egyptologists etc. found reasons to reject them. Ironically, one such reason was that acceptance of the older dates would create an artificial 400 years Dark Ages at about 2300 BC'. However, rejection of bristlecone pine calibrated dates became more difficult after their confirmation by Irish oaks, showing that any radiocarbon variations ...
317. Horizons [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... I would acknowledge as historians in this sense are Hecateus of Miletus in Greek Anatolia and Yen Ying of Chou China, both dating no earlier than the late 6th century BC. In these terms, proto-history would be the preceding period, ending in the mid-6th century BC, when records still consisted of annals, signaries, or artifacts; and prehistory would be the still earlier period, probably Pliocene, when the only clues to hominid life were bones. Synchronisms are verifiable contemporaneities between events in spatially disparate areas. The further apart these areas are, the more impressive are the synchronisms between them. In the Old World - the only hemisphere that created fully fledged histories of its own ...
318. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 1 .90, p. 33 Half the mastodon bones found in the Great Lakes area of North America show signs of butchery, a fact which gave rise to the theory that the large mammals became extinct as a result of over-hunting by ancient man. The piles of mastodon bones have been re-examined and there is a new theory, that prehistoric hunters actually stored their caches underwater in the lakes. Man was indeed responsible for the killing of these beasts, but the large collections of butchered bones would far outnumber the bones of mammals dying in other ways because the stored bones would be more likely to be preserved for posterity. Thus the lake collections would end up biassing the fossil ...
319. C&C Workshop 1990, Number 1: Contents [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ? * Neptune's surprises * the variable Sun * demise of Big Bang? * earthquake cycles? * stable Solar System? * variations in G? * no greenhouse effect? * Tertiary climate change * earthquake electrics * solar activity and ice ages * geomagnetic field * Amazon mystery * mastodon extinction theory * modern mass dyings * wonderful life * prehistoric environmental degradation * climatic catastrophes * Flood catastrophe? * fire as geological process * meteor events * Solomon-Ramesside link? * earliest statue * Nimrud's treasures * story of Jericho confirmed * chronology speculations * support for TIP revision * watch the birdie * Indo-European origins? * the art of deception * comet fertiliser * glacier transport * Mithraic mysteries * ...
320. Letter [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... are now following the trail he blazed for them through the memories of man and rock. Recalling him in their very titles, followers have displayed their centuries of darkness and tests of time (this latter a title Velikovsky had selected for himself); have shuffled their ages and sent their cosmic serpents gliding in and out of his findings in prehistoric myths, pharaonic inscriptions, biblical prophecies and Homeric battles in the sky. Yet, fearful of being classed with a heretic, they dismissed their illustrious mentor in a condescending footnote, admitting that he had coincided with them on one or two points but adding that as to celestial mechanics he was hopelessly misguided', and his history had ...
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