Contents
IN MEMORIAM: David Salkeld 1928-2011 ……………………………………. 2
ARTICLES:
Calendar Reforms of Caesar and Gregory XIII …………………………… 3
Heribert Illig
Archaeological Evidence of an Ancient Pole Shift and
the Geological Implications ………………………………………………………………. 7
F. Slade Barker
The Dating of Alalakh ………………………………………………………………………… 19
Barry Curnock
Retrocalculation and the DeltaT Function ……………………………………………… 23
Laurence Dixon
Can the Neo-Babylonian Chronology be Lowered? ………………………….. 33
(an assessment of some of the work of Charles Ginenthal and Lynn E. Rose))
Carl Olof Jonsson
BOOK REVIEWS …………………………………………………………………………………………….39
SOCIETY NEWS & LETTERS ……………………………………………………… 46
EDITORIAL ADDRESS
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EDITORIAL TEAM – Jill Abery
(Editorial Co-ordinator); Daphne
Chappell; Phillip Clapham;
Laurence Dixon; Val Pearce;
Emmet Sweeney; and David Roth
CONSULTANTS
Jill Abery – Biology
J Bernard Delair – Geology
Laurence Dixon – Mathematics
Lewis M Greenberg – Art History
Carl O Jonsson – Biblical Studies &
late Assyrian/Babylonian history
Trevor Palmer – Biochemistry
Robert M Porter – Egyptology
Wal Thornhill – Physics/Astronomy
Peter Warlow – Physics
Irving Wolfe – Psychology of
Catastrophe
PRODUCTION
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