Historical Evidence and Argument

Index

Abraham, historicity of, 22, 104 Abu-Lughod, Janet, 61 Achaemenid dynasty, 173, 252n19 Acton, John Dahlberg, Baron, 2, 6, 224, 243 Acts of the Apostles, 54, 109 Adam, height of, 192 Aelfgyva, 274n21 African Studies Review, 203 age of the earth, 10, 236-37 Ahlström, Gösta, 241 Akhenaten, 137 Alalakh, 182 Alamo, myth of the, 122-23, 260n33 Albarella, Umberto, 75 Albright, W.F., 52, 68, 137, 142-44, 170, 264n57 Aling, Charles, 171 Allan, Sarah, 156 Allen, James, 219 alternative histories, 20-22 Amenemhat II, 135, 242 Ammisaduqa, 138-39 anachronisms: in baseball rules, 107-8; in bible, 104-5 in meanings of words, 105; in succession practices, 105-6 Anderson, Duane, 67 Angkor Wat, 74 angla, meaning of, 99 Année Philologique, 2, 225 annotation, 168-69, 267n20 anonyms: in bible, 179 Anson, A.C., 189 Antandroy, 96 Antietam, 21 Appleby, Joyce et al: on postmodernism, 25 archeologists: and Masada, 119-20 archeology: access issues, 231-32; and bible, 6768 , 72; epistemology of, 75-76; high 317 INDEX costs of, 74; and nationalism, 73-74; preservation issues, 70-71; and public, 67-68; and written record, 75 archives: in Ghana, 226-27; in Tyre, 52-53; in U.S., 239 argument from silence, 37-38, 173-85 Arnason, Ingólfr, 133 Arrian, 53, 108, 167 Art de vérifier les dates, 10 Arthur, king, 40, 57, 248n27 Asante, 214-15 Aššur-bil-nišešu, 139 Assyria, 139-41 143, 189, 239 authorship, concept of, 110, 219 Avesta, 126 Avila, Roberto, 102 Aztecs: and counterfactual history, 21 Babylon, First Dynasty of, 137, 138-39, 142, 144, 145 Bactria, 249 Baillie, M.G.L., 158-59, 160, 229 Balezor, ruler of Tyre, 51-52 Ba’limanzer, ruler of Tyre, 51-52 Bamboo Annals, 151-57, 171 Bantu expansion, 167 Barnard, Noel, 157 Barnes, William, 52, 241 Barrett, C.K., 54, 109 baseball, effects of changes in, 107-8; myth of origins, 117; records of, 102-3, 107, 189-90 Basque-Irish connection, 251n55 Bayeux Tapestry, 217-18 Beckerath, Jürgen von, 262n14 Beek, Walter van, 111-12 Beinlich-Seeber, Christine, 262n5 Beit-Arié, Malachi, 213 Bell, Barbara, 229 Benediktsson, Jakob, 45 Ben-Yehuda, Nachman, 120 Bergen, fires at, 75 Bering land bridge hypothesis, 38, 181 Berkeley, George, 11 Berkowitz, Leonard, 77 Bernal, Martin, 207-8, 273nn30-31 Berosus, 138 Bhillama III, 129 bible, translations of, 97, 101 Bible Translator, 101 Biblical Archaeologist, 65 Bibliographie annuelle de l’histoire de la France, 225 Bishop, C.W., 151-52 bison, estimates of numbers of, 45 Bixby letter, 110 Black Athena, 207-8 Black Death, etiology of, 183-84, 269n45 Blake, Barry, 88 Blinzler, Jozef, 149 Böhl, F.M.T., 138, 142 Bong Kang, 270n27 Bonnat, Marie-Joseph, 214-15 Book of Mormon, 50, 250n27 Borah, W.W., 31 Bosman, Willem, 101 Bosworth, A.B., 61-62 bowdlerism, 94, 215, 274n11 Boyle, Robert, 161-62 Breasted, J.H., 142 Brecher, Kenneth, 111-12 Brown, Raymond, 150 Brown, S.A., 171 Browne, Walden, 22 Bruce, James, 96-97 Bryan, Elizabeth, 235 Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 236 Buganda, kinglists of, 178-79 Burr, Aaron, 106 Buttrey, T.V., 195 Caesar, C. Julius, 47, 59-60, 62, 189, 193, 253n23 Cahokia, 67 Cambridge Ancient History, 138 camels: as anachronism, 105 Cana, feast of, 254n34 Canek manuscript: as forgery, 109, 209, 258n20 cannibalism: in American Southwest, 202 Carr, E.H., 25 carrying capacity: of earth, 190 Casas, Bartolomé de las, 44-45, 61, 98-99 318 ❖ Index Catchpole, A.J.W., 89 Cerulli, Enrico, 202, 203 Chamberlin, R.T., 238 Chandler, Tertius, 194 Chang, K.C., 171 China: chronology of early, 151-58; warfare in ancient, 193, 271n33. See also Shang dynasty, Xia dynasty, Zhou dynasty Chinese whispers, 86 Chronicles of Eri, 109 chronological tables, 10-11 chronology: ancient Assyria, 139-41, 143-44; biblical, 171; central role of, 10-11; China, 38, 151-58; ancient Near East, 134-47; Egypt, 35-36, 135-37, 158, 159; Hittite, 267n32; of Icelandic settlement, 131-33, 169-70; Inca, 115; John Locke on, 134; Tyre, 51-55 Chronometric Dating in Archaeology, 230 Cicero, M. Tullius, 91 cielo, meaning of, 97-98 Cieza de León, Pedro, 114 Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio, 194, 270n27, 271n31 citing practices, 227-29, 276n19 City of Light, 48 Classical studies, output of, 225 Clayton, William, 219 Clinton, Bill, 161 cliometrics, 188-91 closure, baneful effects of, 76, 237-38; in nineteenth century, 1-4 Clovis Man, 181 Cohen...