2019
Historial Evidence Without Archaeology: Jan Beaufort answers Trevor Palmer
The present paper responds to Trevor Palmer's critique of a “re-writing” of the chronology of the first millennium AD. (...) I argue that the supposed consistency of
the primary sources is in fact an illusion produced by secondary literature. I prove this argument with Palmer's key witness against Heinsohn, the ancient historian Herodian.
Gunnar answers Trevor on Writers and Re-Writers of the First Millennium
Trevor Palmer's Writers and Re-Writers of First Millennium History gives his summary – diligently assembled over many years – of the historiography found in textbooks on the first millennium AD. How can I express a maximum of respect for his achievement? I can assure Palmer that from my entry into grammar school in 1953 until 2013 I not only learned that very historiography for my exams, but literally devoured it...
Trevor Palmer: Writers and Re-Writers of the First Millennium (e-book)
The reasons I had for writing this article are summarized on pages 4-5 of the e-book. Whilst I'm sympathetic in general towards unorthodox theories, I never, as a matter of principle, argue that any particular theory is right (or wrong)... I just try to ensure that as much relevant evidence as possible is brought out into the open, in a fair way, to enable informed debates to take place about individual theories, and for supporters of particular theories to be able to address apparent problems (...).
The impact that set the Earth on fire: geological evidence now found in the Southern Hemisphere
12,800 years ago, following a cosmic impact, an astonishing 10 percent of the Earth’s land surface, or about 10 million square kilometers, was consumed by fires, leading to the extinction of numerous large animal species and putting an end to many human cultures worldwide. Geological evidence for the Younger Dryas event is accumulating from all over the globe. Lately, from South Africa and Chile.
Tristan Carter: Naxos-Neanderthals - the big paper
The evidence for early presence of Neanderthals and earlier hominins on the Greek Aegean island of Naxos, as discovered on the land of Alfred de Grazia, shortly after his death... (See here)
>>>Here, we detail evidence from excavations at the chert source of Stelida on what today is the island of Naxos in the middle of the Aegean Basin, where paleodosimetric dates suggest that hominins were present in the region by 200 ka ago, accessing the chert quarry during a glacial lowstand when exposed land connected Anatolia to continental Southeast Europe, by seafaring, or through some combination of the two. Throughout the remainder of the Pleistocene, this region was occupied and/or traversed at least sporadically, including by early H. sapiens ~40 to 30 ka ago (who may have arrived by boat), and later by indisputably seafaring Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of the Early Holocene...<<<
Wal Thornhill: The SAFIRE Project
Gunnar Heinsohn: Rome and Jerusalem - a stratigraphy-based chronology of the Ancient World
Did the Romans nostrify the history of the Etruscans to lengthen their own chronology? To put the question differently: Does one historical period appear twice in our textbooks? Do contemporary histories of Rome and Etruria mistakenly appear in chronological sequence...?
First American Immigrants arrived by Sea - 16,000+y ago...
The archaeological dig at Cooper's Ferry in Idaho has yielded the oldest human artefacts found in the Americas to this day, pre-dating by some 1,000y the existence of an ice-free passage and the beginnings of the Clovis-culture...
Genetics show new patterns of settlement for the Americas
Homo sapiens' first foray into Greece, 210,000y ago
Katerina Harvati of Tübingen University in Germany, has discovered that modern human has advanced out of Africa much earlier than had been thought. But he didn’t succeed in taking hold... (Interview.)
Life on a snowball
A snowball planet is one which is completely iced-over from the poles to the equator - a misfortune which happened to Earth, yet life endured...
Newly discovered close exo-planets
Two new systems with 3 exo-planets each discovered, at 32 and 73 light-years distance... a possibility of life is not excluded.. and it's just the beginning...
Tiny islet close to Naxos reveals 4,600y old sanctuary
The islet of Daskalios, off the island of Keros, in the Small Cycaldes, in the Aegean Sea, is the site of an architecturally sophisticated prehistoric sanctuary, contemporary to Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Giza.
Gunnar Heinsohn: Augustus and Diocletian - contemporaries or three centuries apart?
The Burning of Troy, by Alfred de Grazia
What about the story of Rome having been founded by Aeneas, Prince of Troy...?
Gunnar Heinsohn: Justinian's correct date in 1st Millennium chronology
The 700 years from the Severan jurists (Imperial Antiquity) via Justinian quoting them (Late Antiquity) up to his laws in Greek (Early Middle Ages albeit in 2nd c. Greek language) are due to simultaneity being turned into a continuum. All three periods immediately preceded the High Middle Ages of the 10th/11th c. CE....
Lightning triggers nuclear reactions
A Kyoto University-based team has unraveled the mystery of gamma-ray emission cascades caused by lightning strikes. (Kyoto University/GROWTH collaboration)
Bon appétit! Neolithic pig-roasts at Stonehenge - Paleolithic rabbit-snacks for Neanderthals
Archaeologists have unearthed new proof of the first large-scale, island-wide celebrations in Great-Britain. It appears now that humans and animals covered hundreds of miles to take part in Neolithic ritual feasts. Go to article
A French-Canadian study led by Eugene Morin, of various deposits dating from -400,000 to -40,000 years shows the presence of a great number of rabbit bones. His research calls into question the general consensus that small game hunting started some 45,000 years ago, with Homo sapiens. His teams' work shows that even in the early Paleolithic, hominids consumed other meat besides the large mammals which constituted the major part of their caloric intake. Go to article
In which direction did megaliths spread?
The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars, by Alfred de Grazia
Can a dance and poem be a piece of astronomical history, tightly, not vaguely, related? If they are, then an idea that many psychologists have considered: that humans have a tendency to suppress the memory of terrible events, but also are somehow compelled by unconscious psychic forces to reenact them...
300,000 y old ballistics technology: the spears of Schoeningen
Modern javelin throwers show: the spears used by Neanderthal and their ancestor Homo Heidelbergensis were technologically sophisticated - accurate and letal at 20 meters.
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Neolithic avant-garde village in Israel drowned by tsunami from Mount Etna
Atlit Yam, off the coast ofIsrael, at the foot of Mount Carmel, is the most ancient submarine archaeological site known to this day, dated to 6900 to 6300 BC. This 40,000 square meter site, lying 12 meters underwater, produced a circle of erected stones (4,000 years older than Stonehenge), the most ancient stone-lined well ever found, the most ancient cases of tuberculosis and malaria, the longest life-expectancy of the period and the first example of a Mediterranean fishing village the economy of which was simultaneously based on the resources of the sea and of the land, the basis of what is known to us today as the Mediterranean diet.