SOCIETY NEWS: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1
LETTERS: Phillip Clapham * Peter Fairlie-Clarke * Steve Mitchell …… ………………………… 2
* Dick Gagel * J. Eric Aitchison * Frank Wallace
ARTICLE: ‘The Entrapment of Venus’ – by Michael G. Reade . ……………………………. ………. 6
MEDIEVAL EUROPE: DATING AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS – Steve Mitchell ……. 7
ADVERTISEMENT: God Star – a book by Dwardu Cardona ………………………… …………………………….. 9
EXTRA: ‘Concluding Points of View’ (the current Palmer/Sweeney Debate
brought to conclusion) – Trevor Palmer & Emmet Sweeney …………………………….. 9
ADVERTISEMENTS: Aeon VII, No. 1, October 2006……………………………………………………………………… 14
The Velikovskian, Vol. VII:1, 2006 ……………………………………………………………… 15
FOCUS: Talbott and Thornhill’s ‘The Electric Comet’, by Jill Abery …………………………… 15
MONITOR: Inside Science * Archaeology * Anthropology * Astronomy
* Catastrophe * Electromagnetism * Geology *
Evolution * Dating * Myth ……………………………………………………. 17
BOOKSHELF: Cyclical Catastrophe – Planetary Wars in the Solar and Saturn System
* New Light on the Black Death * Beyond Stonehenge * Ringlemere,
Precious Cups and the Beginning of the Channel Bronze Age * First
Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East * Kasapa and
the Archaic Period of the Cusco Valley * The Mediterranean * Tayos
Gold * Barbarians * The Messiah Myth * Pyramid Quest: Secrets
of the Great Pyramid and the Dawn of Civilization * Ancient
Infrastructure: Remarkable Roads, Mines, Walls, Mounds Stone Circles ………. 24
NEWS FROM
THE INTERNET …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 25
(Also inside this issue: 4 page pull-out of ‘Listings’ of all main articles from SIS & C&C Workshop, 1978 to 2006)
© The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies – November 2006
PRODUCTION: Val Pearce and Ian Tresman
EDITORIAL TEAM: Jill Abery, Eric Aitchison, Laurence Dixon, Trevor Palmer, Val Pearce, David Roth and
Emmet Sweeney.
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