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Anthony Francis Aveni (born 1938) is an American academic anthropologist, astronomer, and author, noted in particular for his extensive publications and contributions to the fields of archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy.
The rising Sun illuminates the inner chamber of Newgrange, Ireland, only at the winter solstice.. Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary [1] or multidisciplinary [2] study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures". [3]
William Francis Romain (born 1948) is an American archaeologist, archaeoastronomer, and author. William Romain received his Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Leicester and M.A. and B.A. degrees in anthropology from Kent State University. He specializes in the study of ancient religions, cognitive archaeology, and
Edwin Charles Krupp (born November 18, 1944) is an American astronomer, researcher, author, and popularizer of science.He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of archaeoastronomy, the study of how ancient cultures viewed the sky and how those views affected their cultures.
Archaeoastronomy and Archaeo-Topography as Tools in the Search for a Missing Egyptian Pyramid.PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 2010; 7(5) Astronomy, topography and dynastic history in the alignments of the Pyramids' fields of the Old Kingdom.Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 10, 2 (2010) 59-74
Clive L. N. Ruggles (born 1952) [1] is a British astronomer, archaeologist and academic. He is the author of academic and popular works on the subject. In 1999, he was appointed professor of archaeoastronomy at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, when it is believed to have been the only appointed chair for archaeoastronomy among the world's universities.
Archaeoastronomy and Calendar Cities in Daniel Brown (ed.), Modern Archaeoastronomy: From Material Culture to Cosmology, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 865, 2016, pp. 1–7. Campion, Nicholas (2016). Heavenly Discourses. Proceedings of the Heavenly Discourses Conference, University of Bristol, 14–16 October 2011.
Gerald Stanley Hawkins (20 April 1928– 26 May 2003) was a British-born American astronomer and author noted for his work in the field of archaeoastronomy.A professor and chair of the astronomy department at Boston University in the United States, he published in 1963 an analysis of Stonehenge in which he was the first to propose that it was an ancient astronomical observatory used to predict ...