SOCIETY NEWS: Speakers for Conference 2007 * AGM and afternoon Speaker
Meeting reports (talks by Steve Mitchell and Robert M. Porter) …………. 1
LETTERS: Lynn E Rose * Peter Fairlie-Clarke * J. Eric Aitchison * Phillip
Clapham * Laurence Dixon * J. H. John Peet * Sjef van Asten ………. 3
ARTICLE: A Stonehenge Contemporary: The Six Development Phases of
Silbury Hill, its Function and Wider Significance – by Leonard
Saunders ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
REPORTS: David Roth on the SIS Study Group Meeting of 15th May 2005 (visit
from J. Eric Aitchison) * Phillip Clapham on talk by Frank Wallace at
the SIS Autumn Meeting on 22nd October 2005 …………………………………. 15
MEDIEVAL EUROPE: DATING AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS – Steve Mitchell ……. 20
MONITOR: Inside Science * Archaeology * Anthropology * Astronomy
* Catastrophe * Electromagnetism * Geology *
Evolution * Dating ……………………………………………………………….. 22
BOOKSHELF: Troy – The World Deceived: Homer’s Guide to Pergamum * Ancient
Israel in Sinai * The Great Transformation * The Egypt Code
* The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and
Transformations * Through the Pillars of Hercules: Graeco-Roman
Exploration of the Atlantic * Odysseus Unbound: The Search for
Homer’s Ithaca * The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilisation *
Prehistoric Rock-Art in the North York Moors * Ross Island: Mining,
Metal and Society in Early Ireland * Thousands ….. Not Billions:
Challenging an Icon of Evolution, Questioning the Age of the Earth
* The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science ……………………………………………… 25
NEWS FROM
THE INTERNET …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 27
© The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies – May 2006
PRODUCTION TEAM: Jill Abery, David Davis, Val Pearce and Ian Tresman
EDITORIAL TEAM: Jill Abery, Eric Aitchison, Phillip Clapham, Laurence Dixon, Val Pearce, David
Roth, Emmet Sweeney.
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