SOCIETY NEWS: Membership 2011 * Reports on this year’s AGM and Afternoon Spring
Lecture Meeting (speakers Brian Moore and Emmet Sweeney) * Report
on the Study Group Meeting in August ………………………………………………………………. 1
LETTERS: Lynn E. Rose * Laurence Dixon and Eric Aitchison * J. Barlow *
David Roth * Peter Fairlie-Clarke (2) * Dwardu Cardona * Jill
Abery * Rob Mason ……………………………………………………………………………………… 3
ARTICLE: ‘The Years of Babylonian Darkness, by Nick Thom ……………………………………………. 6
FOCUS: ‘Akhenaten’s Big Toe’ – Daphne Chappell ……………………………………………………..….. 9
MONITOR: Inside Science * Astronomy * Electromagnetism * Geology
* Climate Change * Catastrophism * Evolution * Dating
Anthropology * Archaeology * Mythology .…………………………………..……….. 13
BOOKSHELF: Journey to the Mythological Inferno * On Fossil Gods and Forgotten
Worlds * Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of
Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel 1300-1100 B.C.E *
The Virtue of Heresy * Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced
Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs * Controversies in Archaeology
* The Tunguska Mystery * Asian Origins of African Cultures:
Asian Migrations through Africa to the Americas ..……………………………………………… 17
BOOK REVIEWS: Primordial Star * History Rewritten * Gods Heroes and Tyrants * The
Great Flood * The New Creationism * The Iron Age of Mars ……………………………….. 18
FROM THE
INTERNET: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 24
© The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies – November 2010
EDITORIAL ADDRESS: ‘Innisfree’, Highsted Valley, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 0AD, UK.
EDITORIAL TEAM: Jill Abery (Editorial Co-ordinator), Daphne Chappell, Phillip Clapham, Laurence Dixon, Val Pearce,
David Roth and Emmet Sweeney.
PRODUCTION: Val Pearce.
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