Chronology & Catastrophism Review

Journal of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies

1996:1



News2

Articles

Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism and Evolution		4
Trevor Palmer reconsiders Darwin, Lyell and the great Victorian catastrophists
The Homeric Question14
When were Homer's epics written? Benny Peiser looks at Greek history
Hazor and the anachronisms in the chronology of the Ancient Near East21
Gunnar Heinsohn find strange anachronisms in the archaeology of Hazor.
Shamir27
Phillip Clapham asks whether this legendary substance was really 'something upstairs'?
Einstein and Relativity27
Alasdair Beal looks at the strange world of relativity theory.

Notes and Queries		34
Tutankhamun radiocarbon dates

Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology by R.M. Porter		35

Forum by R.M. Porter		35
Phillip Clapham responds to Forum in C&C Review 1994 (Vol. XCVI)

Monitor by Jill Abery		40

Bookshelf by Jill Abery		48

Reviews		49
A Test of Time (David M. Rohl) - Reviewed by Geoffrey Gammon
49
When the Sky Fell (Flem-Ath) and The Sunken Kingdom (James) - Reviewed by Trevor Palmer
54
Red Earth White Lies (Vine Deloria, Jr.), - Reviewed by Jill Abery
52
Fingerprints of the Gods (Graham Hancock) - Reviewed by David Roth
56
Catastrophism and the Old Testament: The Mars-Earth Conflicts (Donald Patten) - Reviewed by David Salkeld
58

Society News		60

Letters:
Jill Abery (2), Bob Porter (2), C. Lindsay Prasher, David Slade, Michael Reade, Eric Cooley, Lisa Aaronson
64

About C&C Review. How to join the SIS		68


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Brian Moore
Bernard Newgrosh
Benny Peiser
Bob Porter
David Roth

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Front cover: The 19th century catastrophist, William Buckland, examined the lower jaw of Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur to be described and named. (Reproduced by kind permission of the Natural History Museum, London).

© The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies, Nov. 1996

ISSN 0953-0053