Prehistory Papers: Cross-disciplinary Studies Into Our Past

This book provides a permanent repository for the various articles or papers originally published on the author's website; together with some older articles; they expand upon the cross-disciplinary research in the author's earlier booksIt is in the nature of cross-disciplinary research that it may fail to find a home in a specialist academic journal; perhaps because it would stray outside their normal subject matter, but more likely, because it may cite evidence that a specialist referee fails to see the relevance. Such broader enquiry may also challenge long-accepted theories or lead to novel conclusions.The articles cover various subject areas to shine a new light on events in the recent human past, including, but not limited-to: astronomy, geophysics, geology, archaeology, mythology, folklore, calendars, climate history, sea-level changes, ancient history, DNA, linguistics and others. There are no constraints on where useful evidence about the past may lie, to fill the cracks between the academic disciplines. There is not even a suitable classification to describe a book such as this one !The primary focus of the author is to examine prehistory, mythology and legends. Often within legends and the fragments left by ancient historians, we may find details that are not strictly needed, or which contain precise numbers and descriptions where such would not be necessary to give background for a fiction. These are the 'mythological fossils' that can be taken-out and separately analysed with the latest science. The articles themselves are presented in their original form in a 'top-down' sequence, with those of mainly astronomical and geophysical content coming before earth-based subjects such as climate, sea-level and archaeology, moving on to human prehistory. All the articles propose original conclusions and hopefully will serve to stimulate specialists to look at the evidence from a different angle.