SOCIETY NEWS: SIS AGM and afternoon Meeting * Report on Study Group
Meeting of 22nd November 2008 ………………………………………………….…. 1
EULOGY TO HUGH CROSTHWAITE – from Professor Alfred de Grazia ………………..… 3
LETTERS: Val Pearce * Mel Acheson * Dwardu Cardona * Emmet
Sweeney * Steve Mitchell (2) * Paul Standring .…..……………………. 3
MUSINGS On The Comet of 44 BC and Caesar’s Funeral Games and
The Worship of Augustus Caesar …………………………………………….….……. 8
MEDIEVAL EUROPE: DATING AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
– Steve Mitchell …………………………………………………………….……….……..…. 11
REPORT: By Professor Mike Baillie, on the conference at University
College, Dublin, 7-9th March 2008 – ‘1200 BC: War, Climate
Change and Cultural Catastrophe’………………………………………………….…. 18
BOOK REVIEW: An Ancient World in Chaos ……………………………………………………………… 21
MONITOR: Inside Science * Astronomy * Electromagnetism * Geology *
Climate Change * Catastrophism * Evolution * Anthropology *
Dating * Archaeology * Mythology …………………………………………….. 21
BOOKSHELF: The Bluestone Enigma: Stonehenge, Preseli and the Ice Age *
The Subterranean Kingdom * Jacob’s Legacy: A Genetic View
of Jewish History * The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One
Man’s Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt’s Greatest
Mystery …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 26
FROM THE INTERNET …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 27
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Sweeney.
PRODUCTION: Val Pearce.
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