Chronology

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Chronology is the science of locating events in time. A chronology may be either relative -- that is, locating related events relative to each other -- or absolute -- locating these events to specific dates in a Chronological Era. An arrangement of events, with absolute dates, from either earliest to latest or the reverse, is also called a chronology or a timeline. (See also Chronicle.)

Contents

1 Current issues

2 See also

3 External links

4 Further reading

Current issues

During the 20th century, many previously accepted conclusions of historical chronology were questioned, both by the introduction of new techniques, by new discoveries, and by claims that not all was well even in the original analysis of existing material. Thus at the start of the 21st century, the chronologies of ancient civilisations in particular were in a state of some controversy. For example, Russian member of Academy of sciences Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko has been very popular lately in Russia with his theory of new chronology of Russia and Europe.

External links

http://www.centuries.co.uk/studies.htm - a proposed revision by a number of archeologists
http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/chrono.html
http://www.geocities.com/qraal/genesis3.html - a summary of revision ideas by a religious group
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/ancient.htm - survey of 20th century revisions of ancient history
http://free-history-dictionary-books-hotels-health-maps.mithec.com/ - a proposed alternative chronology
http://www.nunki.net/PerRenput/TimeLines/Index.html - a proposal by David Rohl
On the Care and Feeding of Revision Hypotheses