SOCIETY NEWS: Reports on AGM & Afternoon Speaker Meeting (with Professor Mike Baillie
and Barry Curnock) * Conference 2007 ………………………………………………. 1
LETTERS: Wal Thornhill * David Wilson * Phillip Clapham * Len Saunders
Peter Fairlie-Clarke
ARTICLES: ‘Birth of the Moon’ – Peter Fairlie-Clarke …………………………………………………….. 8
‘On the Argonauts and Beyond, in a Velikovskian Scenario’ – Sjef van Asten …… 11
MEDIEVAL EUROPE: DATING AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS – Steve Mitchell ….. 17
MONITOR: Inside Science * Archaeology * Anthropology * Astronomy
* Catastrophism * Electromagnetism * Geology *
Evolution * Dating * Myth ………………………………………………….. 22
BOOKSHELF: The 2300 BC Event * The Iron Age of Mars * The Trojan War – a new
history * Frozen in Time * Starf*cker – The Catastrophic Conjunction
of Venus and Mars * The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire and
Famine in the History of Civilisation …………………………………………………………… 25
© The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies – May 2007
PRODUCTION: Val Pearce
EDITORIAL TEAM: Jill Abery, Eric Aitchison, Phillip Clapham, Laurence Dixon, Trevor Palmer, Val Pearce, David Roth
and Emmet Sweeney.
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