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		Chronology and Catastrophism Review See also: C&C Workshop & SIS Internet Digest

		Current Issue: (Back issues below) C&C Review 2008 112pp (May 2008) Special Issue: "Cosmic Catastrophes - Asteroids, Comets and Planets: Possibilities and Probabilites in the Light of New Findings and the Testimony of Ancient Man". The Proceedings of the SIS 2007 Cambridge Conference, c. 112 pp with c. 50 pages in colour. Information on speakers and presentations 'Non-member prices: UK £20.00; Surface/Europe by air £24.00 (US £50.50); Airmail elsewhere £28.00 (US$ 58.80). Place order now with SIS Book Service (contact), or pay online now. Contents Welcome Address SIS Chairman, Laurence Dixon Frank Wallace Introduction and Overview of the various cosmic scenarios for catastrophes affecting Earth Irving Wolfe The Effects and Outcome of Cosmic Catastrophes on Human Societies (The Goddess in Religion in Response to Catastrophe) J. Bernard Delair The Geological Evidence for Cosmic Catastrophes: Their Possible Causes and Long-Term Significance Peter Warlow Reversals of the Earth - Cause and Effect (on the Possibility of Turning The Earth Upside-down') Laurence Dixon The Celestial Mechanics of Worlds in Collision Revisited (and Subsequent New Findings from Space) Rens van der Sluijs Ancient Traditions: What Can They Tell Us About the History of the Earth? David Talbott Past History of the Planets: The Saturn Configuration (Past and Present Research) Wallace Thornhill Electricity of Gravity: Which Rules the Universe? Panel Discussion Open forum Summary Closing Address The Speakers The Delegates

SIS C&C Review: Back Issues Chronology and Catastrophism Review (C&CR) was formerly known as the SIS Review (SISR) between Vol. I, Issue.1 to Vol. VI, issue 4 (and for issue VII:A). It is a publication of the Society for Interdisplinary Studies (SIS) (which in 1996 merged with Chronology and Catastrophism Workshop), and is a sister publication of SIS Internet Digest. Back issues of the magazine are available only to members. Photocopied articles are available to non-members. Pricing details are found on the SIS Back Issues page. Also available are Notes for authors. CONTENTS OF BACK ISSUES OF SIS REVIEW Vols. I to VI plus issue VII:A (American A4) Vol. I, issue 1 (I:1) - 21pp (January 1976) FOCUS: Inaugural Meeting of the Society, London, 9.11.75. * Open Forum (first meeting for discussion of Velikovky's theories and their implications) * First meeting of Ancient History Study Group 7.12.75. ARTICLES & PAPERS: Aphrodite - The Moon or Venus/P James * Problems of Electricity in Astronomy/E Crew * Myth & Method/I Grant * In Defence of the Revised Chronology/M Sieff (answer to J Day's article Objections to the Revised Chronology - SIS Newsletter no. 2) IN PASSING: Black Holes BOOKSHELF: Strange Planet, Strange Phenomena and Strange Artifacts (The Sourcebook Project) * The Complete Books of Charles Fort * Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained * Megalithic Astronomy - a Prehistorians's Comments (review article in Journal for the History of Astronomy * Archaeo-astronomy in Pre-Columbian America * The Late New Kingdom in Egypt * The Hittites and their Contemporaries FORUM (LETTERS): All Right Now * All Baal's * Always the Same - All in the Mind * Poles Uprooted? * The Queen of Sheba * Pensee, Kronos, etc. * From the Editor Vol. I, issue 2 (I:2) - 25pp (Spring 1976) FOCUS: Latest news on Peoples of the Sea * Ancient History Study Group Meeting * REVIEW FORUM (LETTERS): Cenomanian Sync. (comment on I Grant's article) * The Year Before (re: the debate on the merits of Velikovsky's ideas) * Did Moon Maul Mars? * The Jupiter Puzzle ARTICLES & PAPERS: Megalithic Astronomy/E MacKie * Electricity in Astronomy/E Crew * Manna as Confection/M Reade * Diana at Ephesus/P James & M Sieff * In Defence of the Revised Chronology/M Sieff (answer to J Day, contd...) BOOKSHELF: Minerals, Metals, Glazing and Man * The Rotation of the Earth: a Geophysical Discussion * The Structure of Scientific Theories Vol. I, issue 3 (I:3) - 33pp (Summer 1976) IN PASSING: The Walls of Jericho ARTICLES & PAPERS: *The Conquest of Canaan/J Bimson * Aphrodite - The Moon or Venus? (contd.)/de Grazia; with reply by P James * Electricity in Astronomy (3)/E Crew FOCUS: Alfred de Grazia in London * Catastrophist Geology * Meeting address by Dr Irving Wolfe * Velikovsky Reconsidered * American Graffiti FORUM (LETTERS): Communication * Revelation * Calibration * Unsocial Scientists * A Missed Opportunity BOOKSHELF: Hindu Myths * The Past is Human * Velikovsky Reconsidered (reviews by Times Literary Supplement, New Society and New Scientist ) ON SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT: What can we usefully learn from the 'Velikovsky Affair'?/R G A Dolby REVIEW EXTRA: Velikovsky Supported by Establishment/C J Ransom Vol. I, issue 4 (I:4) - 32pp (Spring 1977) FOCUS: A Symposium on Catastrophes * Ebla - New Discoveries * London - A de Grazia 'off the cuff' * Dr Irving Wolfe - informal discussion * Catastrophist Geology * Center for Velikovskian and Interdisciplinary Studies * Kronos * University of Lethbridge * Pensee ARTICLES & PAPERS: Schools of Thought - A Reply/H Meynell * Rockenbach's ''De Cometis'' and the Identity of Typhon/J Bimson * The Cosmology of Job/M Sieff (Planets in the Bible: I) FORUM (LETTERS): Two Faces of Venus * Thunderstones & Lightning * Shishak, Asimov & Hercules IN PASSING: The Circularisation of Planetary Orbits/A Hamilton BOOKSHELF: Peoples of the Sea * The Age of Velikovsky * The Nature of the Stratigraphical Record * Isaac Newton: Historian REVIEW EXTRA: Galactic Space Charge and Stellar Energy (paper by R Juergens) Vol. I, issue 5 (I:5) - 25pp (Summer 1977) FOCUS: 1st public meeting of the Society - Leeds University 19.3.77. (Dr Hugo Meynel, Dr Euan MacKie, P James, Dr J Bimson * Jerusalem - The Censors Censured * London - Capital Colloquy * Catastrophist Geology * Center for Velikovskian and Interdisciplinary Studies * Kriitinen Tutkimusryhma (Critical Study Group) * Kronos * Pensee * Podium Akademische Freiheit (PAF - Swiss Study Group) * Research Communications Network ARTICLES & PAPERS: The Inexact Science of Radiometric Dating/R MacKinnon * A Further Note on Jericho/J Bimson * The Androgynous Comet/Zvi Rix BOOKSHELF: Science and Society in Prehistoric Britain * Megaliths, Myths and Men * The Stone Circle of the British Isles * Strange Universe * The Hittites: People of a Thousand Gods * Growth Rhythms and the History of the Earth's Rotation FORUM (LETTERS): Venus: Whose Baby? * A Further Answer to John Day * Memazzer-Love * Out of Orbit Vol. II, issue 1 (II:1) - 28pp (1-28) (Autumn 1977) FOCUS: Spring Weekend Conference at Glasgow University FORUM (LETTERS): * Raamses Again * Unisex Sandal-straps * Harmonies of the Spheres * Childless Painbirth * Moses and Monotheism BOOKSHELF: Mycenaean Greece, The Sea Peoples and Egypt (plus other books/journals/groups mentioned previously) ARTICLES & PAPERS: * Some Notes on Senmut's Ceiling/M Lowery * Senmut & Phaeton/M Reade * Worlds in Collision and the Birth of Monotheism/H Maccoby * Peoples of the Sea: An Art Historical Perspective/L Greenberg * Electricity in Astronomy (4)/E Crew Vol. II, issue 2 (II:2) - 24pp (29-52) (December 1977) FORUM (LETTERS): Out of Egypt * A Close Shave * Physical difficulties * Constantly Variable (BBC TV 'Horizon'programme) * Strapazierte Sandalen * Bridge Problem FOCUS: Weekend Conference 'Ages in Chaos?' * Catastrophist Geology * Fortean Times * Kriitinen Tutkimusryhmas (Critical Study Group) * Kronos * Podium Akadamische Freiheit * Research Communications Network BOOKSHELF: Native American Astronomy * Effects of Solar Activity on the Earth's Atmosphere and Biosphere * The Rebel Lands * Cosmological Letters * Meteorite Craters * Orbital Motion * Handbook of Iron Meteorites: Their history, distribution, composition and structure * Historical Supernovae * Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations of the Circumpolar Zone * Guide to the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books * Pygmy Kitabu * The Worship of the Sky-God * Tortillas for the Gods ARTICLES & PAPERS: The Primordial Light?/H Tresman & B O'Gheoghan * Senmut and Phaeton: Supplementary Notes/M Reade * Recent Origin and Decay of the Earth's Magnetic Field/T Barnes * A Commentary on Barnes' Magnetic Decay/J Milsom * The Critics and Stellar Energy (comments from D Quilfoyle, E Crew and M Tobias on R Juergens' paper 'Galactic Space Charge and Stellar Energy' in SISR I:4 - with reply from R Juergens) CONTACT Vol. II, issue 3 (II:3) - 44pp (pp 53-96) (Special Issue 1977/78) ('From The Exodus to Akhnaton') EDITORIAL ARTICLES & PAPERS: Dating The 'Admonitions': Advance Report/M Lowery * A Chart for the Conquest of Canaan/J Bimson * The Hyksos and the Archaeology of Palestine/J Bimson * Did Thutmose III Despoil the Temple in Jerusalem?/E Danelius * The Dating of the El-Amarna Letters/P James * The Two Jehorams/M Sieff * A Chronology for the Eighteenth Dynasty/G Gammon * Radiocarbon Dates for the Eighteenth Dynasty/E MacKie Vol. II, issue 4 (II:4) - 24pp (pp 97-120) (Spring 1978) FOCUS: Ebla * Bell, Book and Cornell * Made in Germany (German edition of Worlds in Collision ) * Glasgow Conference * Truzzi Goodbye * Not Amused * Tail Piece (Hittite euphemism in 'A Close Shave' - FORUM, SISR II:2) * Catastrophism and Ancient History * Phenomena (plus groups/journals/books mentioned previously under same section) BOOKSHELF: Scientists Confront Velikovsky * Janus * Index to the Works of Velikovsky * Babylonian Planetary Omens: Part One, The Venus Tablets of Ammisaduqa * A Dictionary of Hinduism * Pears Encyclopaedia of Myths and Legends * Mysteries of Modern Science FORUM (LETTERS): More Fall Out * Another Year * Again Exodus (with reply by H Maccoby and Editor's note) ARTICLES & PAPERS:Worlds in Collision and the Prince of Denmark/I Wolfe (part I) * Isotopic Anomalies in Chronometric Science/D Robins * A Response to Dr Milsom/T Barnes * The Determinants of Scientific Behaviour/B Martin * How Much Did They Know?/M Start CONTACT Vol. III, issue 1 (III:1) - 28pp (Summer 1978) FOCUS: Glasgow Conference Report FORUM (LETTERS): Gathering Goodwill (from the Chairman) * Blind Dating * Thutmose III * The Temple in Jerusalem * Chronic Ailments * That Ankh * Mutwa, Moses and Myth * Mythology & Repression (a response by R Wescott to the dialogue between P James & H Kloosterman in SISR I:2, pp 3-7) * Failure of a Concept? * Walk, don't run (reply to foregoing) * Where's the Discipline? BOOKSHELF: The Dragons of Eden * The Sea Peoples: Warriors of the Ancient Mediterranean * Ramses II and His Time * The Velikovsky Affair * World Atlas of Mysteries ARTICLES & PAPERS: The Arrival of the Philistines and the Revised Chronology/J Bimson * 'Proofs' of the Stability of the Solar System/R W Bass * A Philosophy for Inter-disciplinary Studies/H Meynell HORIZONS: Recollections of a Fallen Sky (plus books/groups/ journals mentioned previously under 'Forum' sections) * Zetetic Scholar CONTENTS: Of Kronos, (vol. I, issue 1 - vol. III, issue 4) Vol. III, issue 2 (III:2) - 32pp (pp 29-60) (Autumn 1978) FOCUS: A Point of View/C L Ellenberger IN PASSING: The Sybil & Dr Stecchini/M Lowery FORUM (LETTERS): Disciplinary Considerations/C Marx - with replies from P James and G Gammon and response by Marx * Conditional Discharge/R Forshufvud * Notes on a Possible Pre-Deluge Catastrophe/B O'Gheoghan HORIZONS: Technology Review BOOKSHELF: The Velikovsky Affair * Orbital Motion * Redating The Exodus and Conquest * A Dictionary of Common Fallacies * Scientists Confront Velikovsky * Ebla * The Mahabharata * Lifecloud * The Sumerian Ural-Altaic, Magyar Relationship RETROSPECT: Immanuel Velikovsky and the AAAS Symposium of 1974 ARTICLES & PAPERS: A Simple Investigation of the Thesis of Isotope Decay Constancy/N G J Sykes * An Alternative to the Ejection of Venus from Jupiter/J C Keister & A Hamilton * A Critique of Ramses II and His Time /P James * The Place of Horemheb in Egyptian History/G Gammon * An Eight-Century Date for Merenptah/J Bimson Vol. III, issue 3 (III:3) - 20pp (pp 61-80) (Winter 1978/79) FOCUS: Lest we forget (re: Velikovsky's theory of cultural amnesia induced by past catastrophic events) * The American Scene (of publications relating to Velikovsky) HORIZONS: Zetetic Scholar FORUM (LETTERS): Top Marks (from Eva Danelius) * Poor Marx (Martin Sieff takes up his challenge) ARTICLES & PAPERS A Chronology for the Middle Kingdom and Israel's Egyptian Bondage/J Bimson * Kima and Kesil/I Velikovsky * Worlds in Collision and the Prince of Denmark: II (Hamlet and Meso-American Myth/I Wolfe Vol. III, issue 4 (III:4) - 32pp (81-112) (Spring 1979) IN PASSING: Metallurgy & Chronology BRIEFINGS: Auspicious Dates (P W Lapp and Carbon 14) * Sacred Bull (an illustration of way scientific process really works) * Exploded Myths (re: asteroids being debris of a planet formerly orbiting between Mars and Jupiter) FORUM (LETTERS): Horemheb's Place * Reign Proof? (Vel.'s identification of Manetho's 26th and 30th dynasties with those of 19th and 20th) * Off limits (whether or not Venus expelled from Jupiter and testing multiple hypotheses) BOOKSHELF: The Cycles of Heaven * The Geomagnetic Field and Life Geomagnetbiology * Tuning in to Nature * The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind ARTICLES & PAPERS The Dresden Codex and Velikovsky's Catastrophe Dates/N K Owen * Nebuchadrezzar and Neriglissar (A Critique of the Revision of the Neo-Babylonian Succession)/C O Jonsonn * Radiocarbon Dates and Cultural Change/E MacKie EXTRA: Geomagnetic Reversals?/P Warlow, 1978, The Institute of Physics (concerns the required mechanism for an inversion of the Earth and 'reversal' of its rotation - without stopping and starting it) Vol. IV, issue 1 (IV:1) - 28pp (1-28) (Autumn 1979) OBITUARY: DR IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY 1895-1979 IN PASSING: Anchor's Aweigh (re: astronomical date of 1786 BC for end of Dyn. XII) BRIEFINGS: Ill wind (re: Fred Hoyle and dust from a comet as cause of catastrophic onset of ice ages) * Extinguishing Marks (unexpected amount of iridium found in sedimentary rock marking the boundary of the Cretaceous period thought to be extra-terrestrial) * Unlicensed attacks (re: reception given Velikovky's ideas) BOOKSHELF: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History FORUM (LETTERS): Pot Plant? (reign of Horemheb) * Space Probity (excessive argon 36 in Venus' atmosphere and not enough in that of Mars) * War Stars (archangels in Sodom and Gomorrah event) HORIZONS: Catastrophist Geology * Fortean Times * Zetetic Scholar ARTICLES & PAPERS The Birth of Planets/P Warlow * A Chronology for the Middle Kingdom and Israel's Egyptian Bondage - II, Israel In Egypt/J Bimson * Notes on the 'Assuruballit Problem'/P James EXTRA: Venus Hothouse - The Other Theory/Frederic B Jueneman SCIENCE FRONTIERS: A redshift undermines the dogma of an expanding universe * Asteroids with moons? * Nine-tenths of the universe is unseen * Petrol channels on Mars? * Cometary appearance of Venus * Venus has an uncertain pedigree * Unearthly life on Mars * Supermasses that come and go * Has the Universe's missing mass been found? 70th anniversary of the Tunguska event * Positive ion emissions before earthquakes may affect animals Vol. IV, issue 2/3 (IV:2/3) - 44pp (29-72) (Winter 1979/80) IN MEMORIAM: DR IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY ARTICLES & PAPERS The Genesis of the Jerusalem Scripta/I Velikovsky * The Ramesside Star Tables/M Reade * 'Extra-Scientific' Dimensions of Science/R McAulay * Colloquium - An 8th-Century Date for Merenptah?/Dr John Day, Dr J Bimson and P James * Colloquium - Reversals of the Earth?/C Leroy Ellenberger, Eric Crew and Peter Warlow FORUM (LETTERS): Dr Lynn Rose on the 'Glasgow Chronology' - with reply by P James BOOKSHELF: Carl Sagan's Broca's Brain. Reviewed by B Moore FOCUS: Dr John Fermor on Velikovsky's 360-day year EXTRA: Dr Harold G Coffin (evidence for the Marine Deposition of Coal) BRIEFINGS: Concerning Immanuel Velikovsky * Velikovsky & Weizmann * A Core of Truth? (NASA asks if Earth could have been formed in the middle of a giant protoplanet - something like Jupiter!) HORIZONS: Fortean Times * Kronos * Zetetic Scholar Vol. IV, issue 4 (IV:4) - 41pp (73-113) (Spring 1980) TRIBUTES: To Dr Immanuel Velikovsky FOCUS: Aspects of Catastrophism * The Gordon Atwater Affair * Broken Reeds (high chronology of Mellaart meets with cool reception) FORUM (LETTERS): Catastrophic Cores * The Oracle Decoded? (tippe-top and the 'insane finale' of the Sibylline Oracles) * Isotope Decay Constant? * Core Hypotheses * Martian Motion * Cores and Effects * Indian Orbits * A Synchronous Stratigraphy? BOOKSHELF: The Long Day of Joshua and Six Other Catastrophes * Lifecloud * Diseases From Space * An Extraterrestrial Event at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary * Terrestrial Catastrophe Caused by Cometary Impact at the End of Cretaceous * Pears Encyclopaedia of Myths and Legends: Oceania and Australia, The Americas HORIZONS: Fortean Times * Kronos BRIEFINGS: The Deluge, After Asimov * Stranger Than Fiction (Lowery on Patrick Moore, the 'Sky at Night' programmes, etc.) ARTICLES & PAPERS Venus - An Interim Report/W Thornhill * The Queen of Sheba and the Song of Songs/H Maccoby * A Possible Reference to King David in Ugaritic Literature/Tom Chetwynd * Bronze Age Destructions in the Near East/G Gammon EXTRA: Electrical Origin of the Outbursts on Io/T Gold * The Magnetic Field of Jupiter and the Volcanism and Rotation of the Galilean Satellites/E M Drobyshevsky (latter two covered by main heading: Jupiter's Magnetic Field and Io's Volcanoes) Vol. V, issue 1 (V:1) - 32pp (1-32) (1980/81) FOCUS: New directions in Ancient History * AGM 1980 * Princeton prospects HORIZONS: Review in brief of other journals BRIEFINGS: Cosmos without gravitation ARTICLES & Electric Stars in a Gravityless Electrified Cosmos/E PAPERS: Milton * Dating the Wars of Seti I/J Bimson * Problems of Continental Drift/Drs I Velikovsky and P Smith Vol. V, issue 2 (V:2) - 35pp (34-68) (1980/81) FOCUS: Catastrophism Old and New * Obituary: Zvi Rix IN PASSING: Ebla Reconsidered (J Bimson) BOOKSHELF: Space Travellers * The Origin of Life * The Bible and Recent Archaeology * The Rebel Lands LETTERS: Clouded Thinking (problem in disproving Venus 'greenhouse effect' assertions) * Down to Earth (congratulations on contents of SISR IV: 2/3) * New Year Resolution (Mayan Sacred Year and Mayan calendar) BRIEFINGS: More Hot Air on Venus * Anticipated findings (magnetic inclination in Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdom pottery/Geomagnetic field in Egypt has varied) * V Axel Firsoff - The Other Gadfly * Volatile Venus ARTICLES: Science & Novelty/B de Finetti * What's in a Name? - Venus 'The Newcomer'/M Lowery * An Introduction to the Evidence of the Panchasiddhantika/M Reade * A Dynamical Objection to Warlow's Inversion of the Earth/V Slabinski * The Anomalous Condition of Venus and the Origin of the Solar System/V Axel Firsoff Vol. V, issue 3 (V:3) - 32pp (69-100) (1980/81 (publ. 1983)) FOCUS: Dr Claude Schaeffer-Forrer, 1898-1982: An Appreciation * Physics, Astronomy and Chronology * Velikovsky's History and Cosmology IN PASSING: Leakey Hypotheses (J Abery) BOOKSHELF: The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes and the Origin of Species LETTERS: Cosmic Deliverance * Sea Level and Earth's Spin Rate * Where are the Egyptian 8th-century Disasters? * Catastrophic Spelling BRIEFINGS: Myths, Megaliths and the end of the Third Millenium BC * Slabinski Addenda ARTICLES: An Integrated Model for an Earthwide Event at 2300 BC, Part I: The Archaeological Evidence/M Mandelkehr * An Earth Inversion Model/M Reade Vol. V, issue 4 (V:4) - 28pp (101-128) (1984) IN PASSING: Life off Earth (T Palmer) BRIEFINGS: Evidence for a Recent Super-comet * Ankylosis in the Chronology of Reconstructed History (letter from C Marx) * Ramesside Star Tables, errata BOOKSHELF: Mankind in Amnesia * Astronomical Dating of Babylon I and Ur III * Bombarded Earth * Pole Shift ARTICLES: Cometary Catastrophes and the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky/V Clube * Velikovsky & His Heroes/M Sieff * The Years 763 and 687 BC/J Bimson Vol. VI, issue 1/2/3 (VI:1/2/3/) - 'Ages in Chaos?') Proceedings of the Residential Weekend Conference, Glasgow, 7th-9th April 1978 - 84pp (1-84) (publ. 1982) INTRODUCTION BY Brian Moore LIST OF, AND INFORMATION ON, SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE Dr Immanuel Velikovsky, Some Additional Evidence from the Period from the Exodus to the End of the Eighteenth Dynasty Geoffrey Gammon, The Nature of the Historical Record Dr John Bimson, Can There Be a Revised Chronology Without a Revised Stratigraphy? (with postscript) Michael Jones, Some Detailed Evidence from Egypt Against Velikovsky's Revised Chronology (with some clarifying comments by G Gammon on Jones' apparent misunderstanding of some of the arguments put forward by Velikovsky in Peoples of the Sea) Peter James, Chronological Problems in the Archaeology of the Hittites (with postscript and discussion session following) Prof Archie E Roy, The Astronomical Basis of Egyptian Chronology Dr Euan MacKie, Radiocarbon Dating and Egyptian Chronology (Factors affecting radiocarbon dates, The nature of Radiocarbon dates, The tree-ring calibration - followed by discussion session and reading of letter to the editor from Michael Start on 'Blind Dating') Prof Archie E Roy, The Stability of the Solar System Dr Robert W Bass, The Celestial Dynamics of Worlds in Collision (followed by reading of letter to the editor from Ralph Juergens and discussion session Dr Immanuel Velikovsky, The Tomb of Ahiram (summary by G Gammon) CLOSING DISCUSSION ENVOI (Dr Euan MacKie) Postcript (SIS Chairman - Harold Tresman) Vol. VI, issue 4 (VI:4) - 32pp (85-116) (publ. 1984) FOCUS: SIS Spring Meeting, 1983 * SIS 10th Anniversary Tour, 1984 * Global Catastrophes: New Evidence from Astronomy, Biology and Archaeology * The Continuing Ica Mystery IN PASSING: Darwinian Diary, Part I (Trevor Palmer) LETTERS: Come Again? (on the name 'The Newcomer' for Venus) * Glasgow Proceeds (in praise of SISR VI:1/2/3 covering the Conference at Glasgow) BRIEFINGS: Devil's Advocates * Archaeology and the Location of Ai * Obituary: Jim Clarke ARTICLES: Velikovsky and the Apparatus of Scholarship/Prof R Hewsen * Skara Brae: A Time Capsule of Catastrophism?/B Moore & P James * 'Papyrus Ipuwer' and Worlds in Collision/B Forrest * A Response to Forrest/M Lowery Issue VII:A - 36pp (1-36) (1985) FOCUS: Comets, Meteorites and Earth History: SIS Spring Meeting 1984 * In Defence of Sir Fred Hoyle * Causal Relationships: Freud, Stekel and Velikovsky * Showers of Glass FORUM: Celestial Dynamics and Worlds in Collision (Earl Milton) * Wild Motions, Angular Momentum and Other Problems (C L Ellenberger) * An Appendix to my Articles on Hatshepsut and Thutmose III (E Danelius) * On Dayton and Dating (John Bimson - with a reply by John Dayton) * The Domestication of Cattle: Interdisciplinary Evidence for Catastrophism - with a comment from Dr Bernard Newgrosh BRIEFINGS: Rene Gallant: A Pioneer of Modern Catastrophism * Iridium and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs * Velikovsky * Egyptology * Listings of back issues to date (back inside cover) BOOKSHELF: The Cosmic Heretics LETTERS: Glasgow Still Proceeds (feedback from publication of proceedings of Glasgow Conference and further praise of SISR VI:1/2/3) ARTICLES: Catastrophism and Evolution/Dr Trevor Palmer * Velikovsky: Hero or Heretic?/Prof Robert Jastrow CONTENTS OF CHRONOLOGY AND CATASTROPHISM REVIEW Vols. VIII (1986) to XIV (1992) 4-issue vols. discontinued 1983/4 - no REVIEW volume was published for 1983/4, or for 1985. From 1986 REVIEW became a 1-issue vol. and was prefixed by 'Chronology and Catastrophism' Vol. VIII (1986) - Special Tenth Anniversary Tour Issue - 56pp with many illustrations and b & w photographs. Centrefold in colour REPORT On the SIS Tenth Anniversary Tour of Egypt ARTICLES & PAPERS: Hatshepsut and the Queen of Sheba: A Critique of Velikovsky's Identification and an Alternative View/J Bimson * Shoshenq I and the Traditions of New Kingdom Kingship in Egypt/Michael Jones * The Bubastite Portal: Evidence Against Velikovsky's Placement of Ramesses II in the Late 7th Century/David Rohl * Shoshenk and Shishak: A Case of Mistaken Identity/J Bimson * El-Hiba Revisited/D Rohl REFLECTIONS: Letters from participants of the SIS Egyptian Tour Vol. IX (1987) - 48pp ARTICLES & PAPERS: Return to the Tippe Top, Part I/P Warlow * The Foundations of the Assyro-Babylonian Chronology/C O Jonsson * Physics, Astronomy and Chronology, Part I: Radiometric Chronometries/Earl Milton * An Integrated Model for an Earthwide Event at 2300 BC, Part II: Climatology/M Mandelkehr * The Cautious Revolutionary/T Palmer (portrait of Stephen J Gould as a catastrophist at heart) Vol. X (1988) - 65pp ARTICLES & PAPERS: The Military Strategy of Sheshonq/Shishak in Palestine/Dr William Shea * An Integrated Model for an Earthwide Event at 2300 BC: Part III, the Geological Evidence/M Mandelkehr * The El-Amarna Letters and the New Chronology/David Rohl and Bernard Newgrosh * Erratic Events in the Solar System/E Crew * Formation of Chondritic Meteorites and the Solar System/Wal Thornhill * Nemesis for Gradual Evolution/T Palmer EXCURSUSES: Additional notes on the Amarna/Early Israelite Monarchy synchronism (from Rohl, Newgrosh and van der Veen) Vol. XI (1989) - 48pp ARTICLES & PAPERS: Shoshenq's Palestinian Campaign: A reply to Shea/Dr J Bimson * Towards a New Evolutionary Synthesis/T Palmer * Drayson's Hypothesis: The Earth's Tilt Cycle/Dr Richard Huggett * Some Thoughts on Inversion Calculations/Terry Field * Objections Overruled - a Reappraisal of Earth Inversion Dynamics/David Salkeld * The River of Ocean/Dwardu Cardona * The Historicity of the Homeric Poems and Traditions/D Rohl (first of three essays on Ancient Greece in the light of the 'New Chronology') Vol. XII (1990) - 56pp ARTICLES & PAPERS: Homeric Troy and the Greek Dark Age/Dwardu Cardona * The Greek Colonisation Movement - When and Why?/D Rohl * The Erratic Descent of Man/T Palmer * Interdisciplinary Indiscipline/Dick Atkinson * Early 21st Dynasty Genealogy and the Consequence of Redating the Installation of HPA Pinudjem I to ca. Year 1 of Psusennes I (at odds with the 'New Chronology') LETTERS: Continuing the exchange of views begun in C & C REVIEW vol. XI, T William Field and D Salkeld debate the mechanics of inversion of the tippe-top (as it relates to the an Earth inversion in the Warlow hypothesis); R Driscoll presents some recent Soviet evidence as compatible with an eruptive origin for Venus; and B Newgrosh relays further feedback on the El-Amarna/Early Israelite Monarchy synchronism presented in C & C REVIEW vol. X Vol. XIII (1991) - 68pp ARTICLES & PAPERS: Earth Tectonics Viewed from Rock Mechanics/Prof Melvin Cook * The Archaeology of Shiloh and Pottery Chronology/Bob Porter * Should the European Oak Dendrochronologies be Re-Examined?/Jesse Lasken * Calibrated Radiocarbon and 'the Methodological Fault-Line'/B Newgrosh * A Bit Creaky? - Tree Rings, Radiocarbon and Ancient History/Alasdair Beal FORUM: The SIS Evolution Debate Continued * Some 'New Chronology' Issues BOOK REVIEWS: The Cosmic Winter * Life Itself: Accident or Design?/T Palmer (reviewing: Clues to the Origin of Life, The Cosmic Blueprint, and Origins) HORIZONS: 1991 ISIS Fellowship Lecture BOXED ITEM Chiron: Giant Comet, Agent of Catastrophe?/B Newgrosh (not given under any category in 'Contents'). Vol. XIV (1992) - 61pp ARTICLES & PAPERS: The Venus Tablets and Climate/John D Weir * Anomalous Occurrence of Crocodilia in Eocene Polar Forests/Ian C Johnson * Misusing Radiocarbon: A Case Study/Jesse Lasken * On the Length of Reigns of the Sumerian Kings/Hildegard Wiencke-Lotz * Velikovsky & Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda?/Irving Wolfe FORUM: A discussion of the issues in mythology and cosmology: Velikovsky vs. Clube & Napier * a series of presentations on 'when did the Exodus and Conquest occur?' BOOK REVIEW: Out of the Desert LETTERS: Aziru and the Bar-Hadad Inscription * Fluctuating Rates of C14 Formation * Radiocarbon and tree rings * Ramoth in the Habiru revolt movement * No Late Bronze I remains at Jerusalem? Vol. XV (1993) - 48pp ARTICLES & PAPERS: The Ninsianna tablets, a preliminary reconstruction/Michael G. Reade * Anomalous Occurrence of Crocodilia in Eocene Polar Forests (Part 2)/Ian C. Johnson * The Origins of the Latin God Mars/Ev Cochrane * The habiru as the 'ibrim of I Samuel and the implications for the 'new chronology'/Peter van der Veen BOOK REVIEWS: Centuries of Darkness: a challenge to the conventional chronology of Old World Archaeology/ review by Geoffrey Gammon * The published reviews of Centuries of Darkness/reviewed by Bernard Newgrosh FORUM: continuing the discussion on cosmology, catastrophism and chronology: David Salkeld, Ev Cochrane, Dick Atkinson, Michael Reade and John Bimson. C&CR Special Edition: Proceedings of the 1993 Cambridge Conference - 136pp Evidence that the Earth has Suffered Catrastrophes of Cosmic Origin in Historical Times Harold Tresman: The SIS, Its History and Achievments: A Personal Perspective Steven Robinson: On the Disproportion Between Geological and Historical Time Part One: The Human Perspective Part Two: Earth, Fire and Water Dr John Bimson: The Nature of an Exodus Catastrophe Re-assessed. Prof. Irving Wolfe: A Catastrophic Reading of Religious Systems Prof. Irving Wolfe: A Catastrophic Interpretation of Western Cosmologies Prof. Victor Clube: Revalation and Catastrophe during the Christian Era: a Basis for Historical Interpolation and Future Extrapolation Wal Thornhill: Evidence for the Extreme Youth of Venus David Slade: Could an Explosive Volcanic Eruption be Induced by the Nearby Passage of a Cosmic Body? Dr Bernard Newgrosh: Enheduanna and the Goddess Inanna David Salkeld: A Harbinger of the Exodus I David Salkeld: A Harbinger of the Exodus II Dr Benny Peiser: Catastrophism and Anthropolgy Vol. XVI (1994) - 61pp ARTICLES: A Catastrophist Reading of Religous Systems/Irving Wolfe * Shishak - Ramesses II or Ramesses III?/Robert M. Porter * The Reliability of Synchronisms in Reconstructing an Historic Chronology from Rehoboam to Hezekiah/Daphe Garbett * Artificially Structured Biblical Chronologies/Antony H. Rees FORUM: Part 1: Natural Selection and Evolution; a challenge set by David Salkeld, and a response from Trevor Palmer * Part 2: The Cambridge Conference A Flop?; a challenge set by Benny Peiser, with responses from Alasdair Beal and Bernard Newgrosh. REVIEWS: The Continuing Evolution of Evolution, books reviewed by Trevor Palmer: The Book of Life edited by S. J. Gould; The Natural History of Evolution by P. Whitfield; Evolution by M. Ridley; The Origins of Order by S. A. Kauffman; Complexity by R. Lewin. Assessing Middle Kingdom Lunar Dates, a review by Damien F. Mackey: "The Astronomical Evidence for Dating the End of the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt to the Early Second Millenium" by Lynn E. Rose, JNES 53:4 (1994) A Life's Work?, book review by Alasdair N. Beal: Scientific Prehistory by Melvin A. Cook The Bible as History?, reviews by Bernard Newgrosh: The Unauthorised Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox; Secrets of the Times: Myth and History in Biblical Chronology by Jeremy Hughes. LETTERS: Egypt and Canaan during the Late Bronze Age * Shoshenk V in the New Chronology * The Great Pyramid * More on the Ninsianna Tablets BOXED ITEMS: Inadmissible Evidence (on a review of Centuries of Darkness) * Redating the Jerusalem Terraces * Labayu at Beth-Shean Vol. XVII (1995) Proceedings of The 1995 Braziers College Conference - 60pp. David Salkeld: The New York Velikovsky Centenary Conference Clark Whelton: Velikovsky’s legacy Eric Aitchison: Evidence for a Neat Year of 365 Days John E. Dayton: Ice Cores and Chronology Gunnar Heinsohn: Imaginary and Expected Catastrophes - Apocalyptic Desire and Scientific Prognosis Benny Josef Peiser: Cosmic Catastrophes and the Ballgame of the Sky Gods in Mesoamerican Mythology Heribert Illig: Cosmic Catastrophes and the Origin of Megalithic Cultures D S Allan and J B Delair: Scientific Evidence For A Major World Catastrophe About 11,500 Years Ago Graham Hancock: Fingerprints of the Gods - do ancient relicts point to an advanced civilisation 15,000 years ago? Review 1996:1 - 61pp News: SIS Cambridge Conference July 1997 April 1996 Professorial Lecture: 'The Fall and Rise of Catastrophism'. Remembering the End of the World, video. International Symposium, 3-5 Jan 1997. Catastrophism Archive Project report. A Test of Time - The London Debate on 27th January 1996. In Memoriam, Mrs Clarice Morgan. Articles: Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism and Evolution by Trevor Palmer The Homeric Question by Benny J. Peiser Hazor and the anachronisms in the chronology of the Ancient Near East by Gunnar Heinsohn Shamir by Phillip Clapham Einstein and Relativity by Alasdair N. Beal Notes and Queries: Tutankhamun radiocarbon dates Recent Developments in Near Eastern Achraeology Forum Monitor: ASTRONOMY: Mystery X-rays, Comets and asteroids unlimited, Lonely Sun, Planets far.. ..and near, Pluto, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars. ELECTROMAGNETISM: Cosmic jet, Magnetic spirals, Greater than gravity, Electric Sun, Colourful quakes, The dowsing force, The fast flip, By Jupiter. GEOLOGY: The Earth, from core to surface, Kinky hotspots and a Hawaiian baby, Impact diamonds, Volcanoes under pressure, Quaking theories, Historical climate flips. CATASTROPHES: Deccan traps iridium, More 'Tunguskas', Update on impact craters, The cosmic implications of extinctions, Catastrophic landslides, The Flood did happen. EVOLUTION: Meteoric life, Patterns of evolution, Lengthy viability, The first aviators go east. ANTHROPOLOGY: Gentler origin, Self-important beliefs, Neanderthal perspectives. DATING: Instant limestone, Erratic rotation, Seek and ye shall find, Antarctic defrost, Current carbon 14, Older, oldest and another Piltdown, Older, oldest and another Piltdown, Santorini, Joseph’s volcano. ARCHAEOLOGY: Far eastern Celts?, Trojan treasure discovered twice, Dead Sea oil factory, Tutankhamun’s grandmother, Monumentally hard work, Alexander’s syndrome, Early Dutch astronomers, Peaceful Vikings beat Columbus, Bronze Age housing estate, Early Amazons, Climate catastrophes in the Andes, A Mesoamerican Rome, Corny assumptions, Mayan suspension bridge. MYTH: Capital catastrophes, Too many suns, European ball courts, Cold memories. Bookshelf: Breaking the Maya Code by Michael D. Coe The Mayan Prophecies by Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell The Environment of Violence Series Book Reviews: A Test of Time: Volume I The Bible - from Myth to History, by David M. Rohl (reviewed by Geoffrey Gammon). When the Sky Fell by Rand and Rose Flem-Ath (reviewed by Trevor Palmer). The Sunken Kingdom by Peter James (reviewed by Trevor Palmer). Red Earth White Lies, Native Americans and the myth of scientific fact, by Vine Deloria, Jr. (reviewed by Jill Abery). Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock (reviewed by David Roth). Catastrophism and the Old Testament: The Mars-Earth Conflicts by Donald Wesley Patten (reviewed by David Salkeld). SOCIETY NEWS: Velikovsky’s 100th birthday Memorial Meeting 30th Sept./1st Nov. 1995. The 1996 Annual General Meeting. Report on SIS Study Group 24th Feb. 1996. Letters: Comets or configuration? - Jill Abery Greek Gifts - Bob Porter Aaronson more accurate than Garbett? - C. Lindsay Prasher Orion and the Mystery of the Pyramids - David Slade The Ninsianna Tablets - Michael Reade Reply to Baillie - Bob Porter Another Olmec/ Ancient Egyptian Link? - Eric H. Cooley Garbett’s Bibilical Chronology - Lisa Aaronson The Orion Mystery - Jill Abery Review 1996:2 - 59pp News News on Velikovsky Books Maps Special relativity SIS Study Group The Second SIS Cambridge Conference Articles Towards an astronomical dating of the pyramids Michael G. Reade questions whether the pyramids really model the constellation Orion. Relation Between the Perpetual Calendar Based on the 128 Years Cycle and the Central American Calendar Flavio Barbiero presents an explanation for stone calendars like the Aztec ‘Piedra del Sol’ (front cover). Planetary Observations of the T’ang Dynasty Charles B. Raspil investigates Chinese planetary observations between 618 and 906AD. The Genesis of Israel and Egypt Emmett J. Sweeney investigates the very beginnings of Egyptian and Hebrew history and finds characters and events unnaturally separated in textbooks by 1,000 years. Features The Wabar Meteorite Crater in the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia by Gerrit L. Verschuur Mythological/Historical Evidence for Earth Tilting? by David Salkeld The strange history of Gerrards Cross by Phillip Clapham Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology by R.M. Porter William Comyns Beaumont: Britain’s most eccentric and least known Cosmic Heretic by Benny J Peiser Notes and Queries Ancient Egyptian Stoneworking Techniques Forum Catastrophes in the 5th - 14th centuries AD - Phillip Clapham replies to Dick Atkinson. Monitor NEWS: Scientific Mafia strikes again PHYSICS: Einstein again; Antigravity ASTRONOMY: Galactic impacts; Star of Bethlehem again; Viral X-rays; Life on Mars; Sun; Stars; Water, water everywhere; Heat of Venus; Io’s volcano; Problem comets; Close encounters; ELECTROMAGNETISM: Jupiter’s magnetism; Starspot cycles and the weather; Moonlights...; Earthlights; Magnetism and behaviour; GEOLOGY: Earthquakes past, present and future; Earthquakes and the weather; Tectonic plates play fast and loose; Fire...; Water; Wind...; Wave; More diamond anomalies; Problem fossils; A sea-change into oil; Rocky theories; CATASTROPHES: Tunguska replay; Bouncing bolides and other impacts; Cometary ice ages; Floods of biblical proportions; Considering extinctions; EVOLUTION: How it all began; How it continued; Problems of time...; Interpretation; Dinosaurs and descendants; ANTHROPOLOGY: Neanderthal, early and late; Late survival; Stone Age coal and drink; Earliest American mummy; Earliest Australian, earliest art DATING: Primeval ageing; Tree rings and climate; Lichen dates art; Problems with fire and cosmic rays; Eastern Mediterranean re-dating ARCHAEOLOGY: Egyptian mummies in drug scandal; The Scythians; Oldest writings; Mediterranean mariners; The peaceful spread of agriculture; European update; Egyptian wonders; Peruvian Exile; Maya blue; Distant contacts; El Nino and collapse in the Pacific; Rongorongo and the Phaistos disc cracked MYTH: Andean candelabra; Orion; Mythical mountains; Animals, fact or fiction? Bookshelf Fire on Earth: In Search of the Doomsday Asteroid The Last Great Impact on Earth: Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets Black Athena revisited Reviews A Slice Through Time (M. G. L. Baillie) - reviewed by Bernard Newgrosh Keeper of Genesis (Bauval and Hancock) - reviewed by Trevor Palmer Society News Personal Report on the 1997 Portland World Conference ‘Planetary Violence in Human History by Birgit C Liesching Victor Clube: ‘The Impact Threat From Space’. Robert Dunlap: ‘Mass Extinctions’. Charles Ginenthal: ‘Shifting Poles and the Extinction of the Mammoths’. Paul LaViolette: ‘Stellar Ciphers, Galactic Superwaves, and the Legendary Cataclysm’. Panel Discussion: ‘Recent Global Catastrophe’. Zecharia Sitchin: ‘Celestial Encounters’. Robert Bass: ‘From Chaos to Stability in the Solar System’. Ted Holden: ‘Anomalies Established Science Never Told You About’. Tom Van Flandern: ‘Mars Meteorites, Comet Satellites, and Multiple Exploded Planets’. CJ Ransom: ‘Virtual Velikovsky and Planetary Orbits’. Rand Flem-Ath: ‘Atlantis & Earth Crust Displacement’. William Mullen: ‘Thales: The First Astronomer?’ Lynn Rose: ‘Astronomy and Planetary Motions’. Panel Discussion: ‘Catastrophe and Planetary Motions’. Dwardu Cardona: ‘Mythology vs. Mythologists’. David Talbott: ‘Symbols of an Alien Sky’. Ev Cochrane: ‘Planetary Anomalies in Archaeoastronomy’. Wallace Thornhill: ‘The Electric Universe’. Robert Driscoll: ‘An Electromagnetic Model of the Ancient Sky’. Panel Discussion: ‘Myth and Models’. Moderator: Tom Van Flandern Richard Heinberg: ‘Environmental Catastrophes and the Changing Attitudes Towards Women, Children, Animals, and Nature’ Roger Wescott: ‘Recent Behavioral Evidence for Past Catastrophes’ Irving Wolfe: ‘Hitler and Millennialism’ Panel Discussion: ‘Implications of planetary Violence in the 20th Century’ Letters The Ninsianna Tablets - John D. Weir Dead Sea Pyramids? - Laurence Dixon Third Intermediate Period, a New Proposal - Robert M. Porter Biblical Synchronisms - Daphne Garbett Did the Mayans have a ‘neat’ 365 day year? - Michael G. Reade Egyptian C14 dates - Major A.J. James What’s in a name? (The Mythological Astronomy, in Three Parts) - Dick Atkinson Egyptian rock carving techniques - Michael Rowland Far Eastern Celts - Kim Salkeld Review 1997:1 - 60pp News Articles Solomon and Sheba Damien Mackey presents new evidence that Hatshepsut was the Queen of Sheba. Habiru and Hebrew Dick Atkinson reassesses this key New Chronology identification. Shamir David Salkeld looks again at the idea of shamir as a radioactive substance. Chronological Placements of the Dynasties of Manetho Jesse E. Lasken argues that Manetho's dynasties should be treated as largely concurrent, regional kingdoms, rather than a consecutive series. Critique of David Rohl's A Test of Time In this abridged extract, Dale F. Murphie argues that Rohl's explanation of Nile flooding is wrong and this undermines his key identifications. Exodus Phillip Clapham looks at the background and asks 'who were the people of the Exodus? Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology by R.M. Porter Relativity Corner by A.N. Beal Notes And Queries Testing Juergens' 'Electric sun' theory, David Davis and Wal Thornhill Nelson Mandela and the collapsing sky, Phillip Clapham Monitor by Jill Abery ASTRONOMY: An ordered Universe; Mistake solves problem; Of comets, crashes and hydrocarbons; Sounds of the Sun; Disappearing planets; Life returns to Mars; ELECTROMAGNETISM: Electrical pollution; Earthquake shocks; GEOLOGY: Moon heat; Earth wobbles and ice surges; North pole quakes south; Missing mountains; Australia rejuvenated; Methane burps CATASTROPHE: Chronicled catastrophe; Sounds in the sky; Dinosaur nursery overcome; Cretaceous began and ended with a bang; EVOLUTION: T. rex's grandfather; It doesn't take much; Evolution gets faster; ANTHROPOLOGY: Ancient Asian genes travel west; Northern Indians from the east; Did apes descend from man?; American colonists again; ARCHAEOLOGY: More on the ice-maiden; Nazca zodiac; New Zealand wall natural; Cathartic art; Asian steel workers MYTH: Crowning glory; Far flung rituals; Reviews Forbidden Archeology by M.A. Cremo & R.L. Thompson and The Hidden History of the Human Race (same authors) - reviewed by Trevor Palmer The Holy Grail: Source of the Ancient Science and Spirituality of the Circling Cosmos by Lee Perry - reviewed by Jill Abery The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (eds. I. and P. Opie) - reviewed by J. Abery Pyramids of Tucume, The quest for Peru's forgotten city (Heyerdahl, Sandweiss and Narvaez) - reviewed by Jill Abery Society News Letters The Orion Mystery, Jill Abery Astronomical retro-calculations, Michael G. Reade Who were the Hyksos?, Emilio Spedicato Shamir, David Salkeld A Slice Through Time, Phillip Clapham A 30 day month in the Venus Tablets?, Michael G. Reade Astronomical Dating of the Pyramids, John D. Weir Tidal Wave?, Eric H Cooley Light on Venus, Eric W Crew Stone Circles and other Random Thoughts, J. Eric Aitchison Wood fragments below basalt flows, Daniel Spatz Review 1997:2 - 60pp News Articles Planet in Crisis Bernard Delair presents geological evidence for major recent upheavals of the Earth. 'Worlds in Collision' after Heinsohn William Mullen examines what happens to the evidence for Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision events if the revised chronology of Gunnar Heinsohn is adopted. O-Kee-Pa: Catastrophe Myths and Rituals of the North American Mandan Indians In 'O-Kee-Pa', the Mandans linked legends of past catastrophe with a cruel initiation rite for their young men. Benny Josef Peiser investigates the meaning of this strange ritual. Shishak, the kings of Judah and some synchronisms Michael Reade examines synchronisms between Palestine and Egypt around the divided Monarchy and their relationship to the catastrophic era recorded by the Ninsianna tablets. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology by R.M. Porter Monitor by Jill Abery PHYSICS: Universal patterns; ASTRONOMY: Establishment unshifted; A motley assortment; Asteroid neighbours; Comet tails; Sun's weather patterns; Origins of the Moon; Of planets...; ...and their satellites; ELECTROMAGNETISML: Lightning phenomena; Sound and light; The Moses coil defies gravity; Like charges attract; More on EM and life; GEOLOGY: Waters under the Earth; Ice on the move; Wobbly theories; Recent climate changes; Seismic stories; The mysterious history of Antarctica; A change of direction; Erosion helps mountains grow; Crustal slips; CATASTROPHE: Santorini - the last word?; C-T event again; Tunguska again; Whence tektites?; Methane catastrophe waiting to happen?; A Mammoth catastrophe; Natural coal fires; EVOLUTION: Strange life; Evolutionary processes; Less gas, more grass; Dinosaur update; The mysteries of flight; Earliest British moggy; ANTHROPOLOGY: Earliest ape; Bones of contention; Earliest wanderings of mankind; DATING: Suspicious sedimentation; Triple dating secures Australian record; No ancient DNA; Old dogs; Disturbed trees; ARCHAEOLOGY: Superior culture?; Europe; The Mediterranean; Asia; The Pacific; MYTH: Mayan tree of life; Solvent sniffers of Delphi; Atlantis here, Atlantis there; Sacred horns; Polar sacrifices; Bookshelf by Jill Abery Reviews Origins: Today's Science, Tomorrow's Myth (J. E. Strickling) - reviewed by Trevor Palmer Mythic Ireland (M. Dames) - reviewed by Phillip Clapham The Sacred Mythological Centres of Ireland (J. Roberts) - reviewed by Phillip Clapham Aba: The Glory and the Torment; The life of Dr Immanuel Velikovsky (Dr R. V. Sharon) reviewed by Brian Moore The Impact of Impact! Benny J. Peiser reviews the reception of IMPACT! The Threat of Comets and Asteroids (G. Verschuur) The Avebury Cycle (M. Dames) - reviewed by Phillip Clapham Society News Letters Dead Sea 'Pyramids', John Bimson & David Ellis The Machrie Moor Stone Circles, Dick Atkinson Cat and mouse game, Geoffrey K Barnard Egyptian C14 Dates, J. Eric Aitchison 'Tidal' Wave and Ocean Surge - the Difference, G.P. Williams Who was the Queen of Sheba?, Adam Green. Review 1998:1 - 60pp News Articles It's Time To Get Serious About Manetho Dale F. Murphie re-examines Manetho's work and comes to some surprising conclusions. Tunguska-Type Impacts over the Pacific Basin around the Year 1178 AD Emilio Spedicato presents evidence that Earth passed through a meteor stream in 1178. A Theory Of Lunar Disturbance Len Saunders argues that the Moon has suffered impacts. Experiments with Time - Part I: 'Catastrophes and Chronologies' Geoffrey Barnard presents a new chronology for the ancient Middle East and reinvestigates questions such as the 'Ashuruballit problem' and Egypt's Third Intermediate Period. The Oera Linda book Derel Briarley investigates the legends of the Frisians, which describe natural upheavals. Dating the Hammurabi Dynasty Using the Venus Tablets John D. Weir investigates astronomical datings for this period of Babylonian history. Assyrian History: the 'Black Hole' Eric Aitchison struggles with problems in Assyrian history. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology: Thera Special Bob Porter reports on the demise of the 'Scientific' date for Thera. Forum 'Solomon and Sheba' by Damien Mackey (C&CR 1997:1, pp. 4-15): Comment from Birgit Liesching, Dick Atkinson, Michael Reade and Eric Aitchison Monitor by Jill Abery INSIDE SCIENCE: Political science ASTRONOMY: Pulsating problems; Crowded space; Mercury; Pluto and Charon; Martian matters; New Moons ELECTROMAGNETISM: Electricity in space; Magnetic Sun; Magnetic planets; Spooky glows; That sixth sense GEOLOGY: Climatic influences; Earthquake mechanics; Sea level changes; Ice age problems; Tectonic jigsaw won't fit CATASTROPHE: Past impacts and future misses; New angle on Chicxulub; Desert catastrophe caused by water; Catastrophic end to Ice Age; Earthquakes and hellfire; Volcanic trigger EVOLUTION: Natural selection downgraded; Loss and gain; Challenge of survivors; The unexpected; As now, so then; Living dinosaurs ANTHROPOLOGY; The truth of the matter; Language centres; Were the earliest hominids monogamous?; Out of Africa and back again; Gigantic Australian appetite; Fact or fancy?; Earliest mariners; DATING: New data sources; Doubtful datings; Eroding pyramids; Plumb lines; ARCHAEOLOGY: Unacknowledged contacts; Lost cities; Iron age Africa; A judgement on Solomon; Mysteries of the Indus; Egyptian snippets; North America; Meso-America; Not hungry in Hungary; Mining matters; Reality of the mythical Dragon ships; MYTH: Celtic configuration; Russian comet?; American cosmic containers; The god of the conquistadors; Moses and Mars; Nasca prayer lines; Tree of life, candle of death Bookshelf by Jill Abery Reviews Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion (by Ev Cochrane) -- reviewed by Jill Abery MAGI, The Quest for a Secret Tradition (by Adrian Gilbert) -- reviewed by David Roth The Relativity Question (by Ian McCausland) -- by Colin Harris Society News Report of ISIS meeting: 'In Defence of the New Chronology' Letters Big Bang, John Crowe The spin of the earth - is it driven or inertial?, Michael G. Reade ORIGINS - Today's Science, Tomorrow's Myth, James E. Strickling Mayan Calendar of 365 Days, J. Eric Aitchison Dead Sea 'Pyramids': a reply, Laurence Dixon Mars and the Asteroid Belt, Peter Ballinger Antarctic Surveys, Phillip Clapham Worlds in Collision after Heinsohn, Michael G. Reade Gervase's 1178 'Lunar Impact' Has Problems, Brad Schaefer Dead Sea 'pyramids', Mike Sanders Review 1998:2 - 60pp News Articles In Defence of Higher Chronologies Prof. Lynn E. Rose takes a critical look at the chronologies of Heinsohn, Peiser and Illig. New Physics Supports Planetary Catastrophism Wallace Thornhill argues for a new model of gravity. Venus, Mars ... and Saturn Ev Cochrane reviews the role of Saturn in mythology and the Earth’s history. Snapshots of The Gods? Charles Raspil finds evidence of catastrophic phenomena in ancient art. A Tale of Two Mountains: Ararat and Sinai Damien F. Mackey investigates parallels between the Flood and Exodus stories. Experiments With Time II: Synchronisms and Stratigraphies The second part of Geoffrey Barnard’s historical reconstruction. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology Bob Porter reports on: Inscriptions from Israel Another Lower Than Low Chronology For Mesopotamia Carbon Dating the ‘Nebuchadnezzar’ Destruction Horizon Forum Michael Reade and John Bimson on a further synchronism between Palestine and Egypt Monitor by Jill Abery INSIDE SCIENCE: Crumbling towers; The myths of science ASTRONOMY: Planets and polar configurations; The Oort cloud; A new type of asteroid; The geology of Mars; Jupiter and offspring; A wet or a dry Moon? ELECTROMAGNETISM: Cosmic explosions and magnetostars; Auroral maps; Song of the Earth; Ball lightning explained; Effective EM fields GEOLOGY: Tectonic problem; Magnetic problem; Rocky problem; Glassy problem; Ancient oil problem; Arctic problem; Natural nuclear reactors; Hot and wet - are we to blame?; El Nino acts as a brake; Collapsing ice sheets; CATASTROPHE: Back to the supernova; Cretaceous landslide; Orbital extinctions; Lunar impact; The plagues explained again; EVOLUTION: Cosmic life; Double take?; Oxygenated take off; Long in the tooth ANTHROPOLOGY; Upright characters; African Adam; Life before the desert sands; Atlatl hurled across the world; Stone Age show offs; Where DID those Americans come from?; Dog domesticates man; Ancient acupuncture; DATING: Fire record all washed up; Ancient shoe dump; Carolingian claims ARCHAEOLOGY: Older than Stonehenge; Wheat cultivation not unique; Thriving northern Neolithic; Mesopotamian rock manufacture; Pyramid logistics; Egyptian record writers; New site for the Ark; Augustus in Troy; Japanese mathematics enters a dark age; Who were the early Bolivians?; American sunflowers bloom in India; Alexandria resurfaces; Drought destroyed colonies; Beowulf in Kent MYTH: The Rainbow Serpent; Mythical Alexander; Atlantis strikes again; Bookshelf by Jill Abery Reviews Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion by Ev Cochrane -- reviewed by Jill Abery Escape from Einstein by Ronald R. Hatch -- Reviewed by Alasdair Beal The Gold of Exodus by Howard Blum -- Reviewed by David Roth Society News Letters Sennacherib and Solomon, Gunnar Heinsohn Ninsianna observations: a correction, Lynn E. Rose Configuratively speaking, Jill Abery World in Collision after Heinsohn, C. Leroy Ellenberger Alternative chronologies, Major A.J. James Review 1999:1 - 60pp News Articles The Causal Source for the Climatic Changes at 2300 BC Moe Mandelkehr develops his theory of a worldwide catastrophe in 2300BC The Causal Source for the Geological Transients at 2300BC Moe Mandelkehr considers geological aspects of the catastrophe. Merlin and the Round Temple Emmet J. Sweeney proposes a radical rethink of early British history. Comalcalco: A Case for Early Pre-Columbian Contact and Influence? David J. Eccott investigates some curious clay bricks in Mayan ruins. Another Velikovsky Affray - The Histories Dale Murphie argues Velikovsky may not be far wrong on Ramesses II and Necho. Saul, David and Solomon J. Eric Aitchison reviews the role of Velikovsky's hero, Saul. Rethinking Hatshepsut David K. Down seeks the pharaoh of the Exodus. Venus Years - an explanatory note by Michael G. Reade. The Mammoths' Demise by Gordon P. Williams. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology Bob Porter reports on: Centuries Of Darkness Update Finkelstein Debate and Hagens' New Article David and Hezekiah Radiocarbon Calibration Forum The Oera Linda Book: contributions from John Bimson, Derel Briarley and Eric Cooley Bookshelf by Jill Abery Reviews A Bronze Age Disaster: Exodus to Arthur: Catastrophic encounters with comets by M.G.L. Baillie - reviewed by Peter James Beginnings of the Use of Metals & Alloys, ed. Robert Maddin and The Birth of Europe by Michael Andrews - reviewed by Phillip Clapham Act of God by Graham Phillips - reviewed by John Crowe New Insights into Antiquity by R. Petersen - reviewed by Jill Abery The Gentile Times Reconsidered by Carl Olof Jonsson - reviewed by Lynn Rose Society News Letters Worlds in Collision after Ellenberger, Bernard Newgrosh Shishak, Necho and the Kings of Judah, Michael G. Reade The Queen of Sheba, Phillip Clapham Conventional Chronologists: Sothic or So Thick? -- John Crowe Review 1999:2 - (Feb 2000) 60pp News Articles Moderating the Middle Ages Derel Briarley reviews Fomenko’s radical theory for the history of the Middle Ages. Fomenko and English History James & Trevor Palmer identify some serious problems for Fomenko’s reconstruction. Fomenko is right Allan Beggs responds. Benoît De Maillet (1656-1738): A Forerunner of the Theory of the Desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea Cándido Manuel García Cruz tells the story of a pioneering geologist. Sothic Dating: The Shameless Enterprise Jess E. Lasken exposes attempts to revive the credibility of Sothic Dating. Assyria: Is The Conventional Profile Believable? J. Eric Aitchison questions the use of limmu lists. The Sword in the Stone Emmett Sweeney asks who put the bronze into the Bronze Age? Up-date of year counts in the time of the Divided Monarchy A supplement to Michael G. Reade’s earlier article on Shishak and the Kings of Judah. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology Bob Porter reports on: Carbon Dating and East Mediterranean Upwelling Carbon Dating the Pyramids Hittites Other Points in Brief Bookshelf by Jill Abery Reviews Ancient Mysteries by Peter James & Nick Thorpe - reviewed by Trevor Palmer Sun, Moon and Sothis by Lynn E. Rose - reviewed by Michael G. Reade The Great Wave by David Hacket Fischer - reviewed by Phillip Clapham Gods of the New Millennium by Alan F. Alford - reviewed by Alasdair Beal The Electric Universe CD ROM by Wal Thornhill - reviewed by Alasdair Beal Catastrophism CD - reviewed by Alasdair Beal Society News Letters Geological Transients in 2300 BC, John D. Weir Merlin's 'Round Table', Lynn E. Rose Comalcalco, Bob Porter The Riddle of the Olmec Heads, Montgomery Hennegin The Year 8 Inscription of Ramesses II in context, John Crowe Mackey, Solomon & Sheba, Phillip Clapham The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain, Derel Briarley Ramesses II Year 8, Bob Porter Review 2000 - (Sep 2000) 60pp Proceedings of The SIS Silver Jubilee Event. Incorporating a Conference on Chronology & Catastrophism Held at Easthampstead Park, Berkshire. Friday 17th - Sunday 19th September 1999 Foreword (with photographs) Friday Evening Discussion Papers Introduction Harold Tresman reflects on the formation of the SIS - and its future Ancient History Revisions: the Last 25 years - a Perspective John Crowe provides a summary and review of revisions of ancient history and their authors. (An expanded version of this paper can be read here) A Survey of Archaeological Evidence for a Revised Chronology John J. Bimson catalogues archaeological problems throughout the Iron Age in Palestine which provide consistent evidence in favour of lower dates. Evidence from the Moon, Newgrange and Stonehenge Indicates Lunar Disturbance Leonard Saunders presents a new analysis of ancient stone carvings. The Importance of Outsiders in Science Bernard Newgrosh presents a roll-call of the scientific outsiders responsible for some of the most important discoveries in science. Archetypes Showing the Presence of Anomalous Electromagnetic Activity Charles Raspil presents evidence of unusual plasmic activity in the atmosphere. Sirius and Saturn Lynn Rose argues that Earth once orbited Saturn, always keeping one face towards it. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory Dwardu Cardona analyses the demands of the Saturn Configuration theory. The Electric Universe Wal Thornhill presents the case for a radical new model of cosmology. The Saturn Theory Ev Cochrane outlines evidence that a colossal configuration of planets dominated the ancient celestial landscape, leaving an indelible mark on primary belief systems of ancient man. The Saturn Problem Peter J. James offers a simple alternative mechanism to account for many of the characteristics attributed to Saturn-deities. Catastrophes: The Diluvial Evidence Trevor Palmer reviews the evidence for large-scale catastrophic floods in the Earth's history. Review 2001:1 - (April 2001) 74pp News Articles Geomagnetic Effects of an Earthwide Event in 2300BC Moe Mandelkehr develops his theory of a worldwide catastrophe in 2300BC. On Velikovsky's Orbits Laurence C W Dixon takes a fresh look at the physics of Worlds in Collision. An Investigation into the Reality of the Early Medieval Dark Age Trevor Palmer looks for Niemitz's missing centuries. The Dark Ages hiatus: a response to Clark Whelton Steve Mitchell investigates what Pope Gregory really did to the calendar. The sacred 260 day calendar of early Mesoamerican civilisations Bob Johnson seeks an explanation for the Mayan calendar. More Problems with Sothic Dating Jesse Lasken develops his case further from ‘Sothic Dating: the Shameless Enterprise'. Thiele's Assyrian Reliance J. Eric Aitchison questions the ‘Bible' of Assyrian history. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology by R.M. Porter Carbon Dating and the Aegean Ash From Thera in Turkish Lake Sediments Shortening Egyptian Reigns Mazar and Finkelstein Ekron New Evidence for a 688 BC Siege of Jerusalem Monitor by Jill Abery Bookshelf by Jill Abery Reviews Controversy: Catastrophism and Evolution by T. Palmer - reviewed by Richard Huggett Mount St. Helens by Dr Steve Austin - reviewed by Laurence Dixon The Crystal Sun by Robert Temple - reviewed by Brian Moore The Followers of Horus. Vol 1, Ed. D. Rohl - reviewed by Steve Mitchell The Electro-Gravitic Theory of Celestial Motion & Cosmology by Charles Ginenthal - reviewed by Eric Crew Forgotten Gems: Tuning in to Nature by Philip S. Callahan - reviewed by Jill Abery Cradle of Saturn, by James P Hogan - reviewed by Bob Johnson Prehistoric Astronomy and Ritual by Aubrey Burl - reviewed by Phillip Clapham The Pyramid Age by Emmet J Sweeney - reviewed by John Crowe King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend, by R. Castleden - reviewed by P. Clapham Hapgood's Ancient Maps - reviewed by Michael G. Reade Uriel's Machine by C. Knight & R. Lomas - reviewed by Derel Briarley Society News Letters Saturn and the Primordial Light by Paul Standring Comalcalco and Olmec Heads by David Eccott Hatshepsut, the Queen of Sheba and Solomon by Bert Fiddelaers Mars by John Ackerman Millennial Madness by Derel Briarley Oera Linda again by Phillip Clapham Year counts in the Divided Monarchy by Michael G. Reade A Twist of Time by by G.K. Barnard Earth Catastrophism and 1054 AD Event by William P. Bourne. Review 2001:2 - (Jan 2002) 68pp News Articles Arctic Anomalies A review by Derek Allan of the strange geology of permafrost and the arctic regions. The Ring About The Earth At 2300 BC Moe Mandelkehr develops his theory of a 2300BC catastrophe with an explanation of its cause. The Valley of Colours Nesta Caiger describes the discovery of a source of pigments used in Egyptian art Apocalyptic Imagery In Modern Political Spectacle Irving Wolfe analyses the rituals of the Nazis and finds evidence of suppressed memories. The Role Of The Nile In Egyptian Chronology Lynn E. Rose takes on both David Rohl and Kenneth Kitchen. The Biblical 40-Years Periods John Crowe considers whether 40 year periods in Biblical chronologies are fact or fiction. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology by R.M. Porter L'Énigme de la Structure Elliptique Other News Monitor by Jill Abery Pot Pourri by Paul Standring Bookshelf by Jill Abery Reviews Alfred De Grazia's discography - reviewed by Brian Moore Kronos by Robert de Telder - reviewed by Emmet J. Sweeney When The Gods Came Down by Alan F. Alford - reviewed by Alasdair Beal The Tutankhamun Prophecies & The Lost Tomb of Viracocha. by Maurice Cotterell - reviewed by Alasdair Beal Ramessides, Medes & Persians by Emmet Sweeney - reviews by M.G. Reade & J.E. Aitchison Predicting the Past by Roger Williams Wescott - reviewed by Jill Abery Cattigara - Legend and History, by Stan Hall - reviewed by Jill Abery The Time Detectives by Brian Fagan - reviewed by Phillip Clapham Society News Obituaries: David Slade; Derek Scott Allan; Melvin Cook; Rt Rev. Dr Jules C.E. Riotte Letters Twists of Time by Bob Porter Jonsson's Gentile Times by John Crowe Sweeney responds to Crowe by Emmet Sweeney Ages in Chaos versus the ‘New Chronologies' of Rohl and James by Phillip Clapham The Fomenko/Illig/Niemitz fallacy by Michael G. Reade Oedipus Questions by Phillip Clapham Necho = Ramesses II? by Michael G. Reade Clarification Requested by Paul Standring Review 2002:1 (July 2002) 62pp News Articles Natural Catastrophes in the 9th Century AD James T. Palmer and Trevor Palmer review evidence of catastrophes at the time of Charlemagne. The Case for Retaining a Dark Age at the end of the Late Bronze Age Phillip Clapham argues that if there were catastrophes, there must have been a Dark Age. Genesis and The Origin of Species David Salkeld goes back to the basics of Genesis, The Flood, Darwin and fossils and comes up with some intriguing observations. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology by R.M. Porter Thera Date Debate Forum Did the Early Middle Ages Exist Only as a Sacred Cow? Heribert Illig debates with Trevor Palmer and Steve Mitchell. In Defence of the Saturn Theory: Ev Cochrane responds to Peter James's critique. The 900-700BC Era: A Conundrum: Michael G. Reade, Peter James and Bernard Newgrosh Monitor by Jill Abery Pot Pourri by Paul Standring Bookshelf by Jill Abery Reviews The Tutankhamun Deception by Gerald O'Farrell - reviewed by Paul Standring The Atlantis Secret by Alan F. Alford - reviewed by Alasdair Beal Homer in The Baltic by Felice Vinci - reviewed by Emmet Sweeney The Extinction of the Mammoth by Charles Ginenthal - reviews by Jill Abery & J. B. Delair The Many Faces of Venus by Ev Cochrane - reviewed by Jill Abery Firmament and Chaos by John Ackerman - reviewed by Alasdair Beal Making Sense of Astronomy & Geology by Dirk Bontes - reviewed by David Salkeld Genes, Peoples and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza - reviewed by Phillip Clapham Sky Dragons and Celestial Serpents by Alistair McBeath - reviewed by Phillip Clapham Planet of the Greeks by Meres J. Weche - reviewed by David Roth Meetings with Shulamit Kogan in Israel by John Crowe Society News Letters Celestial Images by Jill Abery The Year of Confusion by Steve Mitchell The Fomenko/Illig/Niemitz fallacy by Michael G. Reade Ages in Chaos versus the ‘New Chronologies' of Rohl and James by Phillip Clapham Electrics and dynamics by Eric Crew Sacred Cow by Margaret Grant The River Gihon by Margaret Grant Velikovskian orbits by Michael G. Reade 260-day Calendar of early Mesoamerican Civilisations by Eric Aitchison Merino Sheep by Margaret Grant Review 2002:2 (Feb 2003) 70pp News Articles: Commemoration of the 2300BC Event Moe Mandelkehr gathers evidence of memories of a catastrophe in 2300BC. Did Artaxerxes III Despoil the Temple in Jerusalem? Emmet J. Sweeney claims that the Persian Great King was an alter ego of Nebuchadrezzar Velikovsky and the El-Amarna Period Sjef van Asten combines ideas from Velikovsky, Heinsohn and the ‘Glasgow Chronology' to place El Amarna in the 7th century BC. Possible Repercussions of 'The Bible Unearthed' Phillip Clapham explores the implications of Finkelstein and Silberman's book. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology by R.M. Porter Forum Jewish History 500-1099AD, The Gaonic Period in Israel/Palestine, Illig and Niemitz Benny J. Peiser, Gunnar Heinsohn and Birgit Liesching debate the history of the Middle Ages.. Monitor By Jill Abery Pot Pourri by Paul Standring Bookshelf by Jill Abery Reviews Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age by G. Hancock - reviewed by Phillip Clapham The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein & N.A. Silberman - reviewed by Phillip Clapham Arthur and Stonehenge by Emmet J. Sweeney and Arthur - the Dragon King by Howard Reid - reviewed by Jill Abery Seahenge by Francis Pryor - reviewed by Phillip Clapham - reviewed by Alasdair Beal The Invisible College by Robert Lomas - reviewed by Phillip Clapham Catastrophobia by Barbara Hand Clow - reviewed by Jill Abery Society News Letters: Jill Abery, Tony Rees, Eric Aitchison, Felice Vinci, Michael Reade (2), Margaret Grant, Phillip Clapham C&C Review 2003 (Nov 2003) 62pp Proceedings of the SIS Conference: 'Ages Still in Chaos' Progress in revising ancient history since 1952 and possible ways forward Royal National Hotel, London, 14th & 15th September 2002 Articles: Introduction - Ages in Chaos? Professor Trevor Palmer reviews developments in ancient chronology since Velikovsky. Scientific Dating Problems - The Radioactive Dating of Earth's Rocks A comprehensive review by David Salkeld. Evidence for Shortening Egyptian History Robert M. Porter reviews the Third Intermediate Period. Ages Still In Chaos: Defending The Indefensible J. Eric Aitchison analyses the El Amarna Letters. A Testing Time David Rohl reviews progress in developing the New Chronology. The Lion Gate at Mycenae Revisited Professor Lewis M. Greenberg reexamines the basis of its chronological placement. Ramesses II and Greek Archaic Sculpture Professor Lewis M. Greenberg reviews the consequences of redating. Climatology and Agronomy Charles Ginenthal asks how farming was sustained over centuries in the Ancient Middle East. Finding the Limits of Chronological Revision John J. Bimson reviews what has been learned since the ‘Glasgow Chronology'. Velikovsky, Glasgow & Heinsohn Combined Emmet J. Sweeney argues that at least 2,000 years needs to be removed from ancient history. AD Ages in Chaos: a Russian Point of View Dr Eugen Gabowitsch presents the case for major revisions of AD history. Implications for Chronology if Certain ‘Historical' Characters are Mythological Ev Cochrane suggests that some major biblical figures are mythological. Saint Cuthbert Gunnar Heinsohn investigates an anomaly in AD history. Open Forum Possible Ways Forward An eclectic look at the possibilities from David Fairbairn. Summary and Closing Address Trevor Palmer sums up the conference. C&C Review 2004:1 56pp (Incorporating C&C Workshop 2004:2) Society News Chronology & Catastrophism Review Articles: Has Science got it Wrong? -- Remarks on the Arctic Evidence of the Great Pleistocene Extinction, by Derek S. Allan Neo-Assyrians and Achaemenids -- A Test of Beards, by Trevor Palmer Response to Bimson from Emmet Sweenet Book Reviews Monuments of the Neolithic -- Reviewed by Phillip Clapham Solving the Exodus Mystery -- Reviewed by Laurence Dixon Wer Herrschte Im Industal (Who Reigned in the Indus Valley?) -- Reviewed by Emmet Sweeney The History of Britain Revealed -- Reviewed by Jill Abery Chronology & Catastrophism Workshop Letters From Michael Reade, Margaret Grant, S. Howlett, Leonard Saunders, Jill Abery, J. Eric Aitchison, P. Fairlie-Clark, Laurence Dixon and Emmet Sweeney Articles Old Testament Tales -- Introduction and Part I: 'Joseph', by David Salkeld Confusion Breeds on Assumption, by David Salkeld Climatology and Agronomy, by G. P. Williams Fire From Heaven, by Phillip Clapham Monitor Bookshelf Book Service News from the Internet Thunderbolts of the Gods Suppression, Censorship and Dogmatism in Science Cold Fusion to be Reviewed C&C Review 2004:2 52pp (Incorporating C&C Workshop 2004:3) (August 2004) Chronology & Catastrophism Review Society News Articles: Megalithic Circles and Star Charts by Moe Mandelkehr Recent Developments in near Eastern Archaeology Review Avebury: The Biography of a Landscape, by Joshua Pollard and Andrew Reynolds The Miracles of the Exodus by Colin Humphries. The Moses Legacy by Graham Phillips. Pot Pourri In Passing: Health Hazards to Egyptologists: Radon Gas, by Nesta Caiger Chronology & Catastrophism Workshop Letters from: Clark Whelton, Damien Mackey, Paul Standring, Phillip Clapham, Gordon Williams, and Margaret Grant. Articles: Testament Tales, Part II - Moses and History 'A' by David Salkeld Testament Tales, Part III - Moses and History 'B' by David Salkeld Horeb: The Mountain of God, by Emmet Sweeney How Good A Navigator was Columbus? by Peter Fairlie-Clarke The Tang-I Var Inscription, by J. Eric Aitchison Monitor Bookshelf News from the Internet C&C Review 2004:3 64pp (Incorporating C&C Workshop 2004:4) (November 2004) Society News Chronology & Catastrophism Review Articles: Lifting 'Bickerman's veil' by Steve Mitchell In Search of Alter Egos, by Trevor Palmer The Dark Age Gap: An Open Letter to John Bimson, Peter James and David Rohl, from Emmet Sweeney Book Reviews The Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century, Phoenix, 2001. (Translation by S. Dunlop of geo-archaeologist Eberhard Zangger's 1998 book), and Atlas of Ancient History, by Colin McEvedy. The Atlantis Researches, by Paul Dunbavin Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos, by John North Caananites, Chronologies and Connections, by Susan Cohen Perilous Planet Earth: Catastrophes and Catastrophism Through the Ages, by Trevor Palmer In Passing Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology Chronology & Catastrophism Workshop Letters From Eric Aitchison, Emmet Sweeney, Phillip Clapham, Jill Abery, Emmet Sweeney, Walter Peters, Michael Reade, Peter Fairlie-Clarke, Michael Minton, and Hyam Maccoby. Articles Old Testament Tales - Part IV, Moses as Magus 'A' by David Salkeld Old Testament Tales - Part V, Moses as Magus 'B' by David Salkeld The Israel Stele and Yanoam by J. Eric Aitchison The After-Effects of Newton's Comet of 1680 AD, by Laurence Dixon Monitor Bookshelf Book Service News from the Internet C&C Review 2005 70pp (September 2005) Articles An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe -- Part II: Some Unanswered Questions, by Derek S. Allan Catastrophes and the History of Life on Earth, by Trevor Palmer When the Sea Flooded Britain: A Catastrophic Late Holcene Isostatic Interlude along the Eastern Seaboard of England and Scotland, by Steve Mitchell A Reply to Palmer's 'In Search of Alter Egos', by Emmett J. Sweeney The Stream Surrounding the Earth, by Moe Mandelkehr Some Implications of Saunders' Lunar Hypothesis, by David Salkeld Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology Focus: Independent Confirmation of a Catastrophic Event A Confirmation of Professor R. N. Iyengar's 'Profile of a Natural Disaster in Ancient Sanskrit Literature', Reveiwed by Moe Mandelkehr Book Reviews Pillars of the Past, by Charles Ginenthal, reviewed by Irving Wolfe The Stones of Time; Calendars, Sundials, and the Stone Chambers of Ancient Ireland, by Martin Brennan, reviewed by Phillip Clapham Perilous Planet Earth -- Catastrophes and Catastrophism Through the Ages, by Trevor Palmer, reviewed by Alfred de Grazia Stukeley Illustrated, by Neal Mortimer, reviewed by Phillip Clapham Resurrecting Genesis: Displacing the Failed Theory of Naturalistic Evolution, by John R. Hadd, reviewed by David Salkeld Mysterious Ancient America, by Paul Devereux, reviewed by Phillip Clapham C&C Review 2006 58pp (July 2006) Articles: Bias in the Writing of History, by Irving Wolfe Velikovskian Catastrophism: Science of Pseudoscience, by Paul Sukys The Feasts and the Crescents, by Lynn E. Rose Essay-Review Can the Persian Chronology by Revised? -- Part I A Review-Report of the Seminar on Alfred de Grazia's model of 'Solaria Binaria', reviewed by Professor Vladimir Damagov Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology, by Robert M. Porter Book Reviews The Measure of Albion, by Robin Heath and John Michel, reviewed by Phillip Clapham The Reversing Earth, by Peter Warlow, reviewed by Phillip Clapham Glyphbreakers, by Steven Roger Fischer, reviewed by David Fairbairn From the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea; Studies on the History of Assyria and Babylonia in Honour of A.K. Grayson, reviewed by Laurence Dixon Eden in the East; the drowned continent of SE Asia, by Stephen Oppenheimer, reviewed by Phillip Clapham Thunderbolts of the Gods, by David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill, reviewed by Laurence Dixon Prehistory of Australia, by John Mulvaney and Johan Kummings, reviewed by Phillip Clapham C&C Review 2007 70pp (July 2007) Articles: Fitting Lunar Dates, by Daphne Chappell (Inc. a "Reply to Chappell" from Lynn E. Rose) Waters, Mountains and Serpents Surrounding the Earth, by Moe Mandelkehr Velikovskian Catastrophism: Science of Pseudoscience, by Paul Sukys Part II: Thagard, Feyerabend, and Hempel On Epicycles and Ellipses, by Laurence Dixon Open-Mindedness and Ancient Chronology, by Rolf Furuli (An initial response to Part I. of Carl Olaf Jonsson's "Can the Persian Chronology by Revised?") Essay-Review Can the Persian Chronology by Revised? -- Part II Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology, by Robert M. Porter Book Reviews The Long Summer, by Brian Fagan, reviewed by Phillip Clapham Genesis of the Pharaohs, by Toby Wilkinson, reviewed by Phillip Clapham The Electric Sky, by Don Scott, reviewed by Laurence Dixon Troy -- The World Deceived: Homer's Guide to Pengamum, by John Lascelles, reviewed by Phillip Clapham Ancient Egyptian Chronology, by E. Hornung et al, reviewed by Robert Porter The Temple: Meeting Place of Heaven and Earth, by John Lundquist, reviewed by Phillip Clapham