CONTENTS
SOCIETY NEWS …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2
In Memoriam: Han Kloosterman – a romantic catastrophist (1931-2016) ……………. 3
ARTICLES:
A Geomagnetic Approach to Traditions of Axes Mundi, Part III by Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs ……………………………………………………………………………….. 4
The Writings of the Historians of the Roman and Early Medieval Periods and their Relevance to the Chronology of the First Millennium AD, Part IIIb by Trevor Palmer . 19
Cataclysms & Renewals in Climate History: Four Cataclysms since the Last Glacial Maximum by Rupert Holms ……………………………………………………………….. 29
All the Way to Shur (Continued) by Barry Curnock ……………………………………… 42
Towards an Alternative Reconciliation of the Old Testament with History and Archaeology: Exodus at end of Old Kingdom and Conquest at end of Early Bronze III, Part I: Introduction and Egypt by Robert M. Porter 49
Shalmaiati, Maiati by Eric Aitchison and Donald Keith Mills…………………………….. 53
BOOK REVIEW: Deformation of the Earth’s Crust: Cause and Effect reviewed by Phillip Clapham …………………………………………………………………………….. 57
LETTERS: …………………………………………………………………………………. 60
J. Eric Aitchison, Barry Curnock, Laurence Dixon, Colin Harris
Study Group Meeting Report …………………………………………………………….. 64
EDITORIAL ADDRESS:
EDITORIAL TEAM: Trevor Palmer (Editorial Co-ordinator), Phillip Clapham, Laurence Dixon, David Roth, Donald Keith Mills.
PRODUCTION: Barry Curnock, Daphne Chappell
MEMBERSHIP: Phillip Clapham, 45 Mary’s Mead, Hazlemere, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP15 7DS, UK.
GENERAL ENQUIRIES: Barry Curnock, 27 Rosemount Road, Flax Bourton, Bristol, BS48 1UP, UK.
SIS web-site: www.sis-group.org.uk