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Links to a discussion originally appended to another article--Comet Trails...--from ~1988:

• Discussion Part A: The potential problem with any research paradigm is the radical premise upon which it builds. If this footing slips the foundation crumbles, and an edifice of thought construct comes tumbling down. Sir Charles Lyell, like his philosophical model James Hutton, simply could not conceive of ...
• Discussion Part B: Franz Xavier Kugler (1862-1929), a Jesuit priest who devoted much of his life to the study of cuneiform astronomical texts, ultimately reached the conclusion that most of these ancient tablets reflected actual observations and were not, as many other philologists had adduced, nonsensical.
• Discussion Part C: "The Chinese Classics" (1960 ed.), translated by James Legge, are an excellent source of astro-myth, particularly volumes III and IV (The Shoo King and The She King). Though Legge's translation of these ancient texts is biased toward a gradualist interpretation, his notes are copious and the ...
• Discussion Part D: Interestingly: "A curious phenomenon occurred at the farm of Balvullich, on the estate of Ord, occupied by Mr. Moffat, on the evening of Monday last. Immediately after one of the loudest peals of thunder heard there, a large and irregular-shaped mass of ice, reckoned to be nearly ...

An 1885 book by H. C. Mercer that investigates the authenticity of the carving on the above gorget.

• The Lenape Stone

An investigation of the root tap and words derived from it which may be associated with describing comets and impact events:

• Cosmic Heat in the Vedas

Accounts of small, apparent impact events, which caused a fire but little if any blast damage:

• Comet ice impacts?

This observation taken from the writings of G.J.N. Wilson (The Early History of Jackson County Georgia, 1914, pp. 188-193, W.E. White editor) gives a remarkable account of a Native American Stonehenge-like construction as well as a description of the type conditions which prompted a gathering:

• YAMACUTAH: A sacred sky observatory in southeastern North America

For those who enjoy a challenge:

• An interesting puzzle

An ongoing discussion of issues related to this broadening area of research:

• The Cambridge Conference Menu

David Milne's academic prize winning Essay on Comets, published by the University of Edinburgh in 1828:

• Essay on Comets

The earliest known symbol, and its migration; with observations on the migration of certain industries in prehistoric times. By Thomas Wilson, (1894) Curator, Department of Prehistoric Anthropology, U.S. National Museum.

• The Swastika

The Sibylline Oracles (Books III-V) as translated by H. N. Bate (1918):

• The Sibylline

A history of the Dragon in China and Japan, by M. W. de Visser (1913):

• The Dragon in China and Japan

The She King, translated by James Legge (1876):

• The She King or Book of Ancient Poetry ...

Ilios: City and Country of the Trojans, by Henry Schiliemann (1881):

• Ilios

In The Shadow Of The Bush, by P. Amaury Talbot (1912):

• In The Shadow Of The Bush...

A discussion of the historicity of the Mahabharata, edited by S.P. Gupta and K.S. Ramachandran (1976):

• Mahabharata: Myth and Reality, Differing Views

An early (1882) discussion, by Ignatius Donnelly, of the possibility of Earth being hit by a comet:

• Ragnarok: The age of fire and gravel

The Channeled Scabland: A Guide to the Geomorphology of the Columbia Basin, Washington, by Victor R. Baker & Dag Nummedal, NASA (1978):

• The Channeled Scabland

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