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76 pages of results. 461. The Unworkable Polar Saturn [Journals] [Aeon]
... save Earth's delicately balanced system of life. An increased disparity between daily and nightly temperatures would be lethal to the pampered and unadaptable life of the tropical rainforests, in particular, whose huge assemblages of forms of such life argue no past adaptability to daily extremes of temperature. Both the fossil record and presently observed tropical ecologies require that in the prehistoric human and prehuman past, the diurnal fluctuations of temperature in tropical rainforests were minimal. This allowed an immense number and variety of climatically unadaptable species to survive into the present. Stasis is required for such mutual ecological adaptations as the stunningly perfect examples of mimicry which we see, these being in a context of many incomplete examples. It ...
462. Untitled [Journals]
... : Beginning of Religious Belief [Workshop No2] Rowland, Mike: Midsummer Madness [Workshop No1] Roy, Prof. A. E.: Astronomical Basis of Egyptian Chronology [Review V0601to3] Roy, Prof. A. E.: Stability of the Solar System: An Historical Perspective [Review V0601to3] Ruiz-lafont, Aurelio: Cuban Prehistory [Kronos Vol0604] Russell, Robert T.: June 15, 762 Bce: A Mathematical Analysis of Ancient History [Velikov Vol0203] Salkeld, David: Comments on Greta Hort's The Plagues of Egypt' [Workshop W1995no1] Salkeld, David: Good Medicine [Workshop W1989no2] Salkeld, David: Harbinger of the Exodus? [ ...
463. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the greatest numbers of the oldest and most studied dolmens and stone circles. The survey is completed by briefer considerations of Africa, Arabia, the Caucasus, India, the Far East and South America. It is from a consideration of recent customs and beliefs in these other areas that Joussaume is able throw light upon the possible motivations of the prehistoric peoples who left little other record of their civilisation than the stones which mutely mark the passing of their dead. In India stones are still erected in honour of the dead, especially when prayers to departed relatives have been answered. In Kashmir the last survivors of a matrilineal tribe of ibex hunters recall how pictures of their quarry were inscribed ...
464. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... high in iridium, indicating contact with space material, but there is no sign of an actual impact zone. It has therefore been suggested that a bolide exploded before contact, just as it is thought happened at Tunguska. Whatever the explanation, a tremendous amount of heat must have been produced. The glass was obviously discovered and used by prehistoric people almost 100,000 years ago and a green scarab found in Tutankhamun's tomb has proved to be of the same material, although the site is 700 km into the desert. In southern Australia lies Lake Acraman, a salt pan surrounded by a ring of faults and bearing all the hallmarks of a catastrophic impact. That happened about ...
465. When the Sea Flooded Britain [Journals] [SIS Review]
... material stranded on beach' 2. The modern clifflet' represents a recent isostatic spurt. Fig. 5: A model for the sequence of raised beach formation at Brora, Sutherland, to explain the existence of stranded man-made and natural features. The Coastline in the Late Roman Period The sea was slowly receding during the last millennium of the prehistoric period and carried on receding until the end of the Roman period in Britain [15]. If there was a marked reversal of this trend then we should be able to detect both aspects of this movement but this has proved very difficult to spot on the ground. There could be several reasons for this. Firstly, isostacy is ...
... the Book of Revelation was a great maritime state, `sitting upon many waters'. Now Rome never was this, and Babylon still less. Moreover, the study of the text gives one the distinct impression that ' Babylon' was an island, small but mighty, the empire and emporium of the then world, a Britain of prehistoric days. This rich and powerful state was destroyed in one day (xviii. 8)72 nay, in `one hour', as is repeatedly-hyperbolically-stressed in the third part of the myth (xviii. 10, 17, 19). More than that: `Babylon' disappeared entirely from the earth, leaving no trace, ...
467. Child of Saturn (Part VI) [Journals] [Kronos]
... these must have been among the first questions to plague our forebears' newly acquired advertence. The ego of both sexes must have run rampant. To the men, the being of light was undoubtedly male; to the women, unmistakably female. That, after all, has always been the nature of humankind. The social structure of the prehistoric world has recently been classified as having been predominantly matriarchal. Whatever may be said for or against this generality, there seems to be no doubt that matriarchy was the prevailing social system with many primordinate groups. One may therefore assume that the newly transformed Saturnian deity would have been accepted as feminine by such ruling matriarchies - unless, of ...
468. Velikovsky and Racial Memory [Journals] [Aeon]
... Velikovsky's reconstruction of history. The poor state of affairs in Palestinian archaeology at the time prevented Freud from demonstrating his main thesis directly, but he assumed that the Homeric epics dated to the same period that the Jews were adopting the Mosaic form of monotheism; the early Greeks, in Freud's words, (4 ) had probably experienced in their prehistory a period of external brilliance and cultural efflorescence which had perished in a historical catastrophe and of which an obscure tradition survived. He predicted, however, that scientists would eventually be able to verify the same factors underlying the national epics of the Germans, the Indians, the Finns, and (by implication) the Jews, and that ...
469. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... contamination whilst still in the tomb must be regarded as negligible. The general question of the reliability of the radiocarbon method, and the validity of the assumptions on which it rests, needs to be studied in detail, and by experts with no axe to grind. It is worth noting that Prof Melvin A. Cook, in his book Prehistory and Earth Models (4 ), examines the assumptions of C14 dating, and reaches the conclusion that an exact application of Libby's method and data would give a date for the atmosphere itself of no more than 10,000 years! However, it appears from recent comments that the tendency now is to regard C14 measurements not so much ...
470. Mother Goddess and Warrior-Hero (Part One) [Journals] [Aeon]
... example, can one really know that in the Egyptian prototype the turquoise hat-heart or eye of the sun god is the planet Venus, or that the reddish, innermost ab-heart (child in the eye) is the planet Mars? Since ancient Egypt, as we ourselves have insisted, did not possess an astronomy connecting later "planets" with prehistoric "gods," are we not left with mere conjecture on such matters? Fortunately there is virtually no limit to the relevant evidence, and resorts to conjecture are unnecessary if one will consider the available clues in full- a process which does, however, require one to cover a lot of ground. From the claims of the ...
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