Articles
M. M. Mandelkehr: An Integrated Model for an Earthwide Event at 2300 BC, Part 1: The Archaeological Evidence 77
The first part of a series of detailed articles presenting evidence from numerous fields (archaeology, climatology, geology, astronomy and mythology) pointing to a global catastrophe caused by an extraterrestrial body towards the end of the third millennium BC.
Michael G. Reade: An Earth Inversion Model 46
A further contribution to the controversy surrounding Peter Warlow’s Earth inversion theory – can experimental models help resolve the mathematical debate?
Features:
Focus:
Dr Claude Schaeffer-Forrer, 1898-1982: An Appreciation
Physics, Astronomy and Chronology
Velikovsky’s History and Cosmology
70
In Passing: Leakey Hypotheses, by Jill Abery 74
Bookshelf
Trevor Palmer reviews The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes and the Origin of Species by Steven M. Stanley
98
Letters: from B. E. Biermann, C. Leroy Ellenberger, Alfred de Grazia and Malcolm Lowery 99
Briefings:
Myths, Megaliths and the end of the Third Millennium BC
85
Slabinski Addenda
38
Editorial ii
In Future Issues iii
Advertisement: Mankind in Amnesia iv
We apologise that Martin Sieff’s article: “Velikovsky and His Heroes”, scheduled for this issue, had to be omitted through considerations of space – it will be included in SISR V:4.
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