SOCIETY NEWS: Membership to 2012 * Reports on: Study Group Meetings of 10th
of February and 2nd of June; Spring Meeting of 16th April and Autumn
Lecture Meeting 3rd September ……………………………………………………………………. 1
IN MEMORIAM: Moe M. Mandelkehr …………………………………………………………………………………….. 4
LETTERS: Emmet Sweeney * Alistair McFarlane * Dick Gagel * Laurence Dixon …. 5
REFLECTIONS: ‘Reflections’ (personal recollections of David Salkeld). Letters from
Tim & Lee Hooker, Dwardu Cardona, Lynn E. Rose and Wal Thornhill …. 9
ARTICLE: ‘Punt: Homeland of the Egyptians’, by Emmet Sweeney …………………………… 11
FOCUS: An Assessment of Lynn E. Rose’s Sun Moon and Sothis: A Study of
Calendars and Calendar Reforms in Ancient Egypt – Barry Curnock …………. 13
MONITOR: Inside Science * Astronomy * Electromagnetism * Geology
* Climate Change * Catastrophism * Evolution * Dating
* Anthropology * Archaeology * Mythology ……………………………….. 16
BOOKSHELF: ‘Quantavolution’, Challenges to Conventional Science * Seed of
Knowledge, Stone of Plenty; understanding the lost technology of the
ancient megalith-builders * Statues that Walked: Unravelling the
Mystery of Easter Island * The Light of Vedas * Ancient Egypt
39,000 BCE: The History, Technology and Philosophy of Generation
X * Legendary Islands of the Atlantic ……………………………………………………….. 20
FROM THE ‘Peer Review or Poor Review? – You Decide’ * ‘Sacrifice, Delusion
INTERNET: and Climate’ * ‘Daughter of Zeus’ * ‘Seeing Things – In the Sky
Part One’ * ‘Seeing Things – In the Sky Part Two’ ………………………………. 23
© The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies – November 2011
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Emmet Sweeney.
PRODUCTION: Val Pearce.
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