SOCIETY NEWS: 2010 Morning AGM and Members’ Afternoon Spring Lecture Meeting,
with speakers Brian Moore and Emmet Sweeney * July Lecture
Meeting, with Wallace Thornhill ……………………………………….……………. 1
LETTERS: Lynn Rose * Emmet Sweeney * Phillip Clapham * Peter Fairlie-
Clarke * Laurence Dixon……………………………………………………………….. 2
ARTICLES: The el-Amarna Period: 800 or 750 BC? – Sjef van Asten …………………… 7
Sargon II and Sennacherib – Damien Mackey ……………………………… 13
MEDIEVAL EUROPE: DATING AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS – Steve Mitchell ….. 18
MONITOR: Inside Science * Astronomy * Electromagnetism * Geology
* Climate Change * Catastrophism * Evolution * Evolution
Anthropology * Dating * Archaeology * Mythology .……….…. 21
BOOKSHELF: Ice, Mud and Blood lessons from climates past * Uncorking the Past:
The quest for wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages * Bones,
Rocks and Stones: The science of when things happened * Comet
Venus ……………………………………………………………………….……………… 28
BOOK REVIEWS: APOCALYPSE: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God, by
Amos Nur * The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes – Flood, Fire and
Famine in the History of Civilisation, by Richard Firestone, Allen
West and Simon Warwick ….……………………………….…………………. 29
EXTRA: ‘Symbols of an Alien Sky’ and Scientific Support – David Talbott ………. 31
FROM THE ‘Science in Turmoil – Are we Funding Fraud?’ * ‘Suddenly’ * ‘Do
INTERNET: Chinese Whispers Affect Myth?’ * ‘Are Sunspots Disappearing?’
* ‘Stars in Collision Part I’ * ‘Stars in Collision Part II’ * ‘Closing
Gaps – In Our Knowledge’ * ‘Venus: Flame Broiled Pressure Cooker’
* ‘Imagine Another Wet, Rocky Planet’ * ‘The Unwavering Truth
about the Zodiacal Light’ .………………….………………………………….. 32
© The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies – February 2010
EDITORIAL ADDRESS: ‘Innisfree’, Highsted Valley, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 0AD, UK.
EDITORIAL TEAM: Jill Abery, Daphne Chappell, Phillip Clapham, Laurence Dixon, Val Pearce, David Roth & Emmet
Sweeney.
PRODUCTION: Val Pearce.
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