SOCIETY NEWS: Reports: 5th July Study Group Meeting * 20th September Autumn
Lecture Meeting (speakers: Barry Curnock, Steve Mitchell and
Patrick McCafferty) ……………………………………………………………………………………… 1
LETTERS: Phillip Clapham * Laurence Dixon * Emmet Sweeney ………………………… 5
MEDIEVAL EUROPE: DATING AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS – Steve Mitchell …… 8
FOCUS: New Website on Stonehenge ……………………………………………………………………….. 10
BOXED ITEMS: ‘The Overrated “Masters” of the Universe’ ………………………………………………… 12
‘The Waters Under The Earth’ ……………………………………………………………………. 13
BOOK REVIEWS: The Electric Universe * The Pyramid Age …………………………………………… 13
MONITOR: Inside Science * Astronomy * Electromagnetism * Geology *
Climate Change * Catastrophism * Evolution * Anthropology
* Dating * Archaeology * Mythology ………………………………………………. 15
BOOKSHELF: Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists in
Pre-War Britain * Exploding a Myth: ‘Conventional Wisdom’ or
Scientific Truth? * Europe Between The Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000
* People and the Sky: Our Ancestors and the Cosmos * Ancient
World in Chaos (Part I) * Ice, Mud & Blood: Lessons from climates
past * Pillars of the Past (Vol. II) * Solving Stonehenge: The New
Key to an Ancient Enigma * Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology
and the Wrath of God * The Path of the Pole (reprint) ………………………….. 22
FROM THE INTERNET …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 23
© The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies – November 2008
EDITORIAL ADDRESS: ‘Innisfree’, Highsted Valley, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 0AD, UK.
EDITORIAL TEAM: Jill Abery, Daphne Chappell, Phillip Clapham, Laurence Dixon, Val Pearce, David Roth and Emmet
Sweeney.
PRODUCTION: Val Pearce.
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