SOCIETY NEWS: New SIS email contact address * AGM report (in brief) * Report
on talks given on the 26th April, Redhill (Dr Bernard Newgrosh and
Barry Curnock) ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1
LETTERS: Steve Mitchell * Robert Porter * Emmet Sweeney …………………………………………… 3
ARTICLE: ‘Ynysek Syllan’ – Phillip Clapham …………………………………………………………………….. 5
MEDIEVAL EUROPE: DATING AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS – Steve Mitchell …….. 8
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NEAR-EASTERN
ARCHAEOLOGY – Robert M. Porter ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 11
CLIMATE CHANGE – PAST AND PRESENT ……………………………………………………………………….. 14
BOOK REVIEW: The Celtic Gods: Comets in Irish Mythology, by P. McCafferty and M. Baillie
(reviewed by Phillip Clapham) …………………………………………………………………………… 15
MONITOR: Inside Science * Astronomy * Electromagnetism * Geology * Evolution
* Catastrophism * Anthropology * Dating * Archaeology * Mythology ……. 18
BOOKSHELF: Science vs Religion: The 500 year war * Prehistory: Making of The Human
Mind * Calendrical Calculations * The Great Warming: Climate Change
and the rise and fall of civilizations * Kluge: The haphazard construction of
the human mind * Ages in Alignment Series …………………………………………………….. 23
FROM THE INTERNET ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 24
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Sweeney.
PRODUCTION: Val Pearce.
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