Editorial 1
Society News 2
ARTICLES
Thera and the Exodus: the Cause and the Effect by David A. Slade 5
The Etruscans and their Language by Hugh Crosthwaite 7
The Exo-Synchronous Molecular Evolutionary Clock by George R. Harvey 10
The Origins of the Spartan State in the New Chronology by David Rohl 14
Lies, Damned Lies and … by Alasdair Beal 20
FORUM
1. On Ecological Niches in Evolution (Abery/Palmer) 24
2. Three Views on Orbital Circularisation (Forshufuvd/Crew/Beal) 25
3. The Reign Lengths of Saul and Labayu (Rees/Newgrosh) 27
Horizons: History, proto-History and the Search for Synchronisms 22
Evolution Symposium at Southeastern University 28
Reconsidering Velikovsky (1990 Toronto Conference) 28
1990 ISIS Fellowship Lecture Meeting 31
MONITOR:
* Incredible Star Turn * Planet is Comet * Missing Neutrinos * Big Bangs, Little Whimpers * Chaotic Pluto * Water from Space? * Planet X/Nemesis? * The Outer Planets * Red Shift Renegades * Surface of Venus * Life from Space * C-T Impact Site? * Smallest Dinosaurs * Problem of Frozen Mammoths * African Eve * As fresh as 20Myrs ago! * Surprisingly Speedy Speciation * Pitfalls of Fossil Evidence * Sedimentary Problems * U-Th Dating Tool * Lost Mummy Found * Mexican Record of Supernova * Dendrochronology Difficulty Resolved * Dating Thera * Jericho Debate * Israel in Egyptian Relief? * Oldest Statues 34
REVIEWS:
The Knossos Labyrinth – a new view of the ‘Palace of Minos’ at Knossos 38
The Oracles and their Cessation – a Tribute to Julian Jaynes 39
Catastrophism 2000, 40
LETTERS
E. Cooley, R. M. Porter, B. Aaronson, D. Salkeld, C. L. Ellenberger, E. W. Crew, H. Friedrich, D. Shelley-Pearce, B. Liesching, J. Abery, B. Newgrosh, G. Heinsohn, J. D. Weir and M. G. Reade 41
Annual General Meeting 49
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EDITOR: Bernard Newgrosh
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