SOCIETY NEWS: MESSAGE TO MEMBERS * AGM 2014 * Report on AGM
2013 * 2013 Afternoon Spring Meeting …………………………………….. 1
LETTERS: Emmet Sweeney (2) * Jill Abery * Barry Curnock * Val Pearce
* Dick Gagel * Bob Porter * Peter Fairlie-Clarke ………………………… 2
ARTICLES: New Moon? – Slade Barker …………………………………………………………………………… 8
American Ice-Sheet – Peter Fairlie-Clarke ………………………………………………….. 9
Archaeoastronomical Simulations Assuming Crustal
Rotation – John Plaxton …………………………………………………………………………………. 12
FOCUS: ‘Dark Earth discovered below the floor of the Undercroft, at York
Minster – Steve Mitchell ………………………………………………………………………………… 16
PROCEEDINGS: THE DAVID SALKELD MEMORIAL MEETING …………………………….. 18
(with presentations from Trevor Palmer, David Roth, Dwardu Cardona, Barry
Curnock, Emmet Sweeney and Wal Thornhill)
‘David Salkeld: Colleague, Leader and Friend’ * ‘The Mysterious
Shamir’ * ‘The Proto-Saturnian System’s Linear Alignment’ *
* ‘Peter Warlow’s Tippe-top Theory’ * ‘Scythians and
Sumerians’ * ‘David and the Polar Configuration’
© The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies – November 2013
EDITORIAL ADDRESS: ‘Innisfree’, Highsted Valley, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 0AD, UK.
EDITORIAL TEAM: Jill Abery (Editorial Co-ordinator), Daphne Chappell, Phillip Clapham, Laurence Dixon, Val Pearce,
David Roth and Emmet Sweeney.
PRODUCTION: Val Pearce.
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