SOCIETY NEWS: SIS Annual General Meeting (and Afternoon Speaker Meeting – Prof.
Mike Baillie: ‘New Musings on Evidence for Extra-terrestrial Impacts’
and Barry Curnock: ‘One Dozen Hittite Anomalies’) * Latest details
and booking for The David Salkeld Memorial Meeting * Reports on
the Study Group Meetings of 1st November 2012 & 7th February 2013 …….. 1
LETTERS: Peter Fairlie-Clarke * John Plaxton * Slade Barker * Daphne Chappell
* Anthony Rees * Bob Porter * Emmet Sweeney ………………………………………………………. 3
ARTICLES: ‘Experiments in Chronology, Part I: The Hittite Homeland’, by B. S.
Curnock and P. J. Crowe ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 7
‘Can ‘Zerah the Ethiopian’ be Amenhotep II?’, by Eric Aitchison and
Daphne Chappell ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 13
‘Further Support for a Velikovskian-like Scenario?’, by Sjef van Asten ……… 15
COMMENT: ‘Ignoring Data’, by Charles Ginenthal …………………………………………………………………………… 17
MONITOR: Inside Science * Astronomy * Electromagnetism * Geology
* Climate Change * Catastrophism * Evolution * Dating
Anthropology * Archaeology * Myth and Ritual ……………………………………… 19
BOOKSHELF: Women in the Ancient World * The Half-life of Facts: Why
Everything We Know has an Expiration date * Science Set Free ………… 26
BOOK REVIEWS: Homo Britannicus – reviewed by Laurence Dixon * The Bluestone
Enigma – reviewed by Phillip Clapham ……………………………………………………………………… 27
FROM THE ‘Mercury’s Anomlous Composition’ * ‘The Sun Man’ * ‘Plasma
INTERNET: Storms’ * ‘Xaturn’ * ‘Hot Comets’ * ‘Made You Blink’ * ‘Old
Theories about Young Stars’ ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 30
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