Recovering the Lost World -- Jno Cook
List of Books
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- Immanuel Velikovsky "Worlds in Collision" (1950)
- The book which started it all, relates the near-contact
between
Earth and Venus at the time of the Exodus of Moses. Almost entirely
evidenced from tales and histories rather than physical data.
- Immanuel Velikovsky "Earth in Upheaval" (1955)
- A compendium of physical catastrophic evidence.
- Immanuel Velikovsky "Ages in Chaos" (1952)
- The first of a series of book presented as a revision of
Middle East chronology. Followed by "Peoples of the Sea" (1977);
"Rameses II and His Time" (1978) (and, never published: "The
Dark Ages of Greece" and "The Assyrian Conquest") This data is
mostly accepted, although still under discussion.
- Giorgio de Santilliana, and H. von Dechend "Hamlet's Mill" (1969)
- The forerunner to the polar configuration thesis. Scholarly,
but offers no physical model.
- David Talbott "The Saturn Myth" (1980)
- The book which started all the interest in the polar imagery.
Talbot's search among Egyptian and Mesopotamian sources established the
image of a large globe above the Earth at the North horizon in remote
antiquity. Many other researchers have followed up on his initial
concepts, proposing various physical models.
- Dwardu Cardona, "God Star" (2006)
- This traces Gods and initial conditions of the Earth as
recalled from the earliest mythological sources. He adds a vast collection
of biological and geological data to support his claims for the Saturnian
polar sun. Additionally, Cardona recounts the theories which have come
forward in efforts to explain the Saturnian polar globe over the last 25
years, as well as attempts to account for biological and geological
discrepencies.
Available from Mikamar Publishing.
- David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill, "Thunderbolts of the Gods" (2005)
- A long awaited first book which will tie together Saturnian
and Plasma information. Available from Mikamar Publishing and Amazon.
- David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill, "The Electric Universe" (2007)
- An excellent introduction to plasma and the electricity of
space, the sun, comets, and planets. Available from Mikamar Publishing and
Amazon.
- Halton Arp "Seeing Red" (1998)
- Another researcher who knows what he is doing, Arp produces
evidence of the bipolar creation of adjacent galaxies from parent
galaxies. The redshift/distance relationship is shown to be a fallacy.
- Donald Scott "The Electric Sky" (2006)
- An explanation of the electrical theory of the Sun. As an
electrical engineer and astronomer, Scott knows what he is talking about,
and provides a clear and readable text, covering stars and galaxies.
Available from Mikamar Publishing and Amazon.
- Robert Bakker "The Dinosaur Heresies" (1986)
- A wonderful book, this man knows how to conduct research in
his field. Synopsis: dinosaurs were warm blooded. He mostly dismisses the
meteorite impact theory, and adds a few lines about the changes ca 65
million years ago which will leave you hanging.
- Jared Diamond "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1999)
- The absolute exhaustive source on the spread of agriculture,
animal domestication, and languages during the Neolithic. Answers many of
the questions on how and why cultures spread. See also his "Collapse"
(2005) which deals with ecological issues -- very insightfull and
extendable to the past.
- William Howells "Back of History" (1954, 1963)
- Paleolithic and Neolithic studies. The first chapter, a
thorough explication of climatic conditions, is worth the price of
the book alone. Wish there were an update.
- Gordon Taylor "The Great Evolutionary Mystery" (1986)
- Manages to dismiss just about everything about Darwinian
evolutionary theory. Historical account of controversies. Read Bakker
for a differing perspective on some items.
- Richard Dawkins "The Blind Watchmaker" (1986, 1996)
- A popular presentation of the case for Darwinian evolutionary
theory, in contrast to the above. Arguments are too frequently from
mechanical analogs.
- Derek Ager "The Nature of Stratigraphy" ()
- Questions the nature of stratigraphic dating techniques. A
thick book. In "The New Catastrophism" (1993) Ager violently disputes
Velikovsky's use of stratigraphic evidence.
- Ian Tattersall "The Fossil Trail" (1995),
- Describes the workings paleontology of hominid fossils from
the perspective of an insider. Especially interesting are the details of
how the researchers remained stuck with received wisdom, and only slowly
adopt new concepts. He has coauthered articles with Niles Eldredge (who
developed the concept of 'puctuated equilibrium' with Stephen Gould).
Especially interesting are the details of how the researchers remained
stuck with received wisdom, and only slowely adopt new concepts.
- James Shreeve "The Neandertal Enigma" (1995)
- The European and Middle Eastern Neanderthal fossils, by a
science reporter. He spends more time on the European and Middle Eastern
Neanderthal fossils. As a science reporter, his book is eminently
readable, but as inconclusive as Tattersall's. Nothing really is
conclusively resolved, yet all the data is presented, generally from
discussions with the researchers at the source sites. Only in the last two
chapters does he attempt a resolution, but it is entirely based on
applying a contemporary perspective to the remote past.
- William Ryan and Walter Pitman "Noah's Flood" (1998)
- Describes the evidence bearing on the sudden flooding of the
Black Sea through the Bosporus in 5600 BC, and the diaspora of the
mixed-farming peoples (and languages) to Europe, Asia Minor, and
Mesopotamia, and to Asia (the last to return on horseback a thousand years
later as the speakers of Indo-European languages). Twenty years of
research
by them and many others.
- Richard Rudgley "The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age" (1999)
- Neolithic cultures comprehensively detailed with respect to
languages, writing, medical practices, religious symbolism. A very good
source which should stand your ideas of 'advances' on its head.
- Denise Schmandt-Besserat "Before Writing, Volume One: From Counting to Cuneiform" (1992)
- Use of tokens for recordkeeping since 8000 BC, leading to
cuneiform by 3100 BC. Amazing. But also see Gimbutas, below, for clear
indications of some sort of script in the Balkans and Minoan Crete nearly
two thousand years earlier.
- Marija Gimbutas "The Civilization of the Goddess" (1991)
- Neolithic worship of the Fat Lady in the sky. European
Neolithic communities, 7000 to 3500 BC. See also Gimbutas "The
Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe" (1982) - with 250 illustrations.
Concentrates mostly on the Balkans, Greece, and Anatolia, with imagery
which carries through from Paleolithic times to the Iron Age. There are
additional titles. Gimbutas reads a dozen European languages, and thus
outdoes any other researchers in terms of an overview. Her last book is
"The Living Goddess" (1999) published posthumously.
- James Mellaart "Catal Huyuk" (Çatal Hüyük) (1967)
- A Neolithic city in Anatolia, with preserved murals and the
worship of the Fat Lady in the sky. Interesting for its bizarre feminine
symbolism. A village of mixed farming and hunting people, lasting a
thousand years to 6000 BC.
- Noel T. Boaz "Eco Homo" (1997)
- Human evolution in context of ecological and environmental
changes over the last 8 million years. Boaz is a field researcher,
paleoanthropologist, and theorist. Amazingly good book, carefully written.
- Julian Jaynes "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" (1976)
- Worth reading a few times. The specific conclusions may not
be acceptable to you, but the information about how we think is absolutely
solid. Jaynes claims that the consciousness we exhibit did not become
part of human culture until the first millennium BC -- late, very late.
Most interesting is his assembly of cultural evidence from the second and
first millennium BC, most of which is related to the gods of Mesopotamia
and Greece.
- Hannes Aflven "Cosmic Plasmas" ()
- Aflven made himself a heretic and outcast by rejecting the
Big Bang theory. Yet his explorations laid the foundation
for the modern understanding of plasma physics.
- Nigel Davies "The Ancient Kingdoms of Mexico" (1982)
- Excluding the Maya, this gives a great overview of
Mesoamerican history before the Spanish arrival.
- Linda Schele and David Freidel "A Forest of Kings" (1990)
- Almost overwhelming details of religion, imagery, monuments,
the personalities, and especially glyphs of the Yucatan Maya, with the
period of AD 200 through AD 900 in great detail. See also "Maya
Cosmos" (1993).
- Michael Coe "The Maya" (7th ed 2005)
- An easy to read introduction to the Maya, from archaic
beginnings through today; covers Olmecs and Guatemalan origins also.
Provides much detail not found in other texts.
- Dennis Tedlock "Popol Vu" (1996)
- The best translation, with copious notes.
- Charles Mann, "1491, New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus" (2006)
- A comprehensive survey of the Americas before the arrival of
Europeans. Mann is a science reporter, and willing to breach the 10,500 BC
barrier held among US archaeologists. As a reporter he presents all sides
of ongoing controversies. He presents conclusive evidence of the large
population existing in the Americas before AD 1492.
- Michael Grant "The Ancient Mediterranean" (1969)
- A very readable book tracing the civilizations of the eastern
mediterranean, Greece, and Rome to about AD 400, with an emphasis on
geography and trade. Grant includes relevant data which explains much more
than traditional accounts of wars and conflicts do. Best set of maps also.
- Geoffrey Bibby "The Testimony of the Spade" (1956, 1974)
- Overview of European archaeology, mostly from the historical
perspective of actual discoveries by the first researchers. From Altamira
through Roman times. Readable, and without philosophizing. Bibby dug at
Dilmun.
- Edward Tripp "The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology" (1970)
- An alphabetical listing, 600 pages, but limited to Greek and
Roman. A 'must have' book to check who did what to who and when, and who
wrote about it.
- Lee Hall "Athena, a biography" (1997)
- An amazing book, and very readable. Hall manages to string
all the disconnected events of Greek mythology together into a readable
sequence -- much like a lively novel. I was amazed that my attention was
kept throughout.
- Vine Delorian "Red Earth, White Lies" (1995)
- Deals with Indians in the Americas. It is mostly political,
except that he makes a clear case both for why a 11,500 BC 'invasion' of
the Americas by Asiatics is unlikely, and why the notion is held with such
tenacity. A number of other interesting topics.
- Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson "Forbidden Archaeology" (1993)
- May also be available in shorter form as "Hidden History
of..." An attempt, although religiously inspired, to prove that humanity
has existed nearly forever. Some valid data and as much invalid.
- S. Warren Carey "The Expanding Earth" (1976)
- 200 million years ago the Earth was half its present diameter.
This smaller earth was completely enclosed by Pangea, the ancestral
supercontinent. Expansion split the earth's old crust into the present-day
continents and the spaces filled with ocean water. In "Theories of the
Earth and Universe" (1988) he deals with matter being created in the
center of the earth.
- I. E. S. Edwards "The Pyramids of Egypt" (1985)
- Originally published in 1950, but updated in 1971. An
excellent overview of early mastabas and pyramids through the First and
Second Kingdom. Descriptions, photographs, diagrams and maps, and the
relationship of construction between pyramids over time.
- E. G. Richards "Mapping Time; the calendar and its history" (1998)
- A lucid book which actually makes sense of calendars and time
keeping in antiquity, set within a historical discussion. Covers the
background of astronomy, naming, and counting. Incidentally, calendars are
shown to be needed for religious observations and tax purposes, although
as always the additional claim is made that they are needed by farmers to
"know when to plant". The author is not always correct, and at times
vague.
- Joseph Lambert "Traces of the Past; Unraveling the secrets of Archaeology through Chemistry" (2001)
- Stone, pottery, glass, and the metallurgy of bronze -- all
detailed (and illustrated) with much more variety than the traditional
simplifications. From Upper Paleolithic colorants through Mesopotamian
beer brewing. Very good, easy to read. You will end up with a whole new
appreciation for human ingenuity in the Neolithic -- the development of
glazes, the variable metallurgy of bronze, the manufacture of Damascus
steel.
- Martin Jones "The Molecule Hunt; archaeology and the search for ancient DNA" (1997)
- Excellent book on the DNA (and other traces of organic
chemicals) of the archaeological remains of plants, animals, humans,
Neanderthals. Corrects many ideas about the Paleolithic and Neolithic
world, development of agriculture, diets, and the migrations and
relationships among populations. Notions of the "cold, barren, wind swept"
Beringia persist, but Indians are placed in the Americas 24,000 years ago,
not just at 10,500 BC.
- John McPhee "Annals of the Former World" (1998)
- A massive 700 page book on geology, as told from field trips
with geologists and many anecdotes, which makes the book very readable,
although you will at times be overwhelmed with the graphic details of
the movements of mountains and the local US geography. Presents both sides
of the plate tectonics issue, although mostly a mainstream presentation.
- Vincent H. Malmström "Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon" (1997)
- The book explains where the Olmecs came from (Guatemala), the
development of the 260 day and 365 day calendar, and the long count, but
it is guesswork based on computational results, rather than insights on
how people think or the effects of orbital changes. However,
Malmström convincingly and, I think, correctly, demonstrates the
solar alignments of the ceremonial centers of central Mexico, which goes
far beyond all attempts at understanding by archaeologists. He also
provides a cohesive history of the people involved. He is a geographer.
- Clive Gamble, in "The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe" (1999).
- Gamble discusses the later Erectus and the following
Neanderthals in Europe who developed a method of making cutting blades by
knapping pre-shaped flint nodules. This was a development which may have
derived from the Acheulean hand axe. For 300,000 years the blades are
consistently the same size. Clive Gamble notes that it was the process of
knapping which was culturally carried forward. The Neanderthal mind was on
the technique, not on the end product. Only this explains how the blades
remain the same for such an unimaginable long time, and how no variations
are ever developed. Yet the Neanderthals were effective predators or
scavengers.
Gamble also presents a review of glaciations and ice cores and oceanic oxygen isotope dating. He notes that hominids (H.erectus) did not invade Europe until after 500,000 BC, and suggests a combination of the prior existence of large African predators and a very variable climate as responsible for their absence. The climate was the result of repeated extensive glaciation in northwestern Europe. The cats disappeared after a half mya, but the variability of the climate in western Europe, compared to the rest of the world, did not improve.
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