S.I.S. Review

Journal of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies

A SPECIAL PUBLICATION COMPRISING:

Vol. VI Issues 1-3

Ages in chaos?

How valid are Velikovsky's views on Ancient History?
with papers on the Astronomy

PROCEEDINGS OF THE RESIDENTIAL WEEKEND CONFERENCE
organized by
THE DEPARTMENT OF EXTRA-MURAL AND ADULT EDUCATION,
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
and held at
JORDANHILL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
7TH TO 9TH APRIL 1978


Introduction (Brian Moore)2
Speakers5
Dr I. Velikovsky:
Some Additional Evidence from the Period from the Exodus to the End of the Eighteenth Dynasty
7
Geoffrey J. Gammon:
The Nature of the Historical Record
12
Dr John J. Bimson:
Can There be a Revised Chronology Without a Revised Stratigraphy?
16
  • Postscript
24
Michael Jones:
Some Detailed Evidence from Egypt Against Velikovsky's Revised Chronology
27
  • Michael Jones and "Peoples of the Sea": some clarifying comments (G. Gammon)
33
Peter J. James:
Chronological Problems in the Archaeology of the Hittites
34
  • Postscript
50
  • Discussion Session
51
Prof. A. E. Roy:
The Astronomical Basis of Egyptian Chronology
53
Dr Euan MacKie:
Radiocarbon Dating and Egyptian Chronology
56
  • Factors Affecting Radiocarbon Dates
57
  • The Nature of Radiocarbon Dates
58
  • The Tree-ring Calibration
62
  • Discussion Session
63
  • "Blind Dating" - letter to the Editor (Michael Start)
63
Prof. A. E. Roy:
The Stability of the Solar System
66
Dr Robert W. Bass:
The Celestial Dynamics of "Worlds in Collision"
69
  • Letter to the Editor (Ralph Juergens)
76
  • Discussion Session
77
Dr I. Velikovsky:
The Tomb of Ahiram (summary by G. Gammon)
80
  • Closing Discussion
82
Envoi (Euan MacKie)83
Postscript (Harold Tresman)84
  • Abbreviations
84



Cover illustration: Hittite sculpture from Carchemish with cosmological motif of two "atlantes" holding up the sky.

Copyright (c) Society for Interdisciplinary Studies 1982
ISSN 0308-3276


Editors:
Malcolm Lowery
(Co-ordinating)

Peter J. James

(History)

Rosemary Burnard

(Artwork)

Editorial Address:
Brian Moore,
Central Library,
Clarence Rd.,
Hartlepool,
Cleveland,
England, UK