SOCIETY NEWS: Post Conference 2007 * Conference Proceedings * New Books
in stock * Membership 2008 ………….. …………………………………………………….. 1
LETTERS: J. Bernard Delair * Sjef van Asten * Trevor Palmer * Mel Acheson
* Emmet Sweeney ……………………………………………………………………………………… 2
ARTICLES: The Extinction of the Mammoths: Is Science Still Getting It Wrong?
– J. Bernard Delair …………………………………………………………………………………………. 4
Suppiluliumas I and Tutankhamun – A Bridge Too Far? – Barry Curnock ……………. 5
MEDIEVAL EUROPE: DATING AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS – Steve Mitchell ……. 13
CLIMATE CHANGE – PAST AND PRESENT: Phillip Clapham ……………………………………………. 19
FOCUS: Occam’s Razor Applied to History – Emmet J Sweeney ……………………………………… 21
BOOK REVIEW: Lords of Avaris, by David M Rohl (reviewed by David Roth) …………………………….. 25
MONITOR: Inside Science * Archaeology * Anthropology * Astronomy
* Catastrophe * Electromagnetism * Geology *
Evolution * Dating * Myth. …………………………………………………………… 28
BOOKSHELF: Spoken Cat (and relevant factors in Worldview) * A Guinea Pig’s History
of Biology * Punctuated Equilibrium * The Archimedes Codex *
* The Sun Kings * The Origin of the British * Plows, Plagues and
Petroleum * Winds of Change: Climate, Weather and the destruction of
Civilisations * Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Nino and the fate of
Civilisations ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 33
INTERNET NEWS …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 35
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