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Professor Timothy Pauketat, Director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey, is a leading authority on Mesoamerican-Southwestern connections, and in this conversation he reveals the secrets of Cahokia, the major precolonial ceremonial centre located near St. Louis, Missouri, in the Midwestern region of the United States.

Journeying into indigenous American cultures' astronomy and sacred geography, Timothy presents an astronomically aligned landscape reflecting the Milky Way and key stages of the lunar cycle. And he also discusses the possible functions of the enigmatic Birdman tablet, the controversial Chaco Meridian, and the role of frog sounds in ancient rituals and climatology.

Professor Timothy Pauketat website: https://anthro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/pauketat

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With a background in philosophy, archaeology, and education Dr. Philip Tonner has taught at a number of Universities and secondary schools across the UK, and he is currently a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow’s School of Education.

Regarding his recent book - Dwelling: Heidegger, Archaeology, Mortality, one reviewer wrote “There really isn’t any directly comparable book – it is unique,” and in many ways so too is the following conversation.

In this episode we discuss the Phenomenology of archaeology in the context of palaeolithic and Neolithic cultures. Philip shares Heidegger’s work on “Dwelling,” a lifestyle in which agents were consumed by the practical needs of day to day living, where the modern thresholds between mind and body, or thought and action, were nonexistent.

This discussion presents an enthralling liminal voyage into ancient mind and cognition through the perspectives of Heidegger, and the interpretations and expansions of Dr. Philip Tonner.

Philip Tonner website: https://philiptonner.com/

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Dr. Richard Friedman is an expert in Geographic Information Systems [GIS] who integrates aerial technologies with remote sensing and ground surveying at archaeological sites.

In this episode we return to the Chaco Canyon in the US southwest where Richard outlines the astronomical, geographical and cosmological aspects of this vast assembly of tracks, roads, ways, sacred structures and underlying alignments.

Richard explains that the monumental landscape not only reflects aspects of the night sky, and the cycles of the Sun and moon, but it also served as a complex map of the perceived underworld.

Developing on our study into the controversial Chaco Meridian, which was delineated by Professor Stephen Lekson in Episode 02, Richard describes a series of T-shaped stone doorways, or thresholds, at Casas Grandes which might serve as architectural evidence for the arrival of a band of elite Chacoans migrating southwards from Aztec Ruins in Chaco Canyon.

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Claus Clausen has a background in Astrophysics and he works as an independent researcher associated with the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Having mapped the alignments of funnel beaker culture passage graves across Western Europe, in this episode Claus describes a matrix of sites with lunar orientations and he shares his theory about a megalithic lunar seasonal pointer.

And introducing a perplexing historical anomaly Claus details vast triangular assemblies of burial sites within monumentalized prehistoric landscapes.

Claus Clausen research paper: https://www.academia.edu/63905881/The_Orientation_of_Danish_Passage_Graves?ri_id=90221

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Dr. Gail Higginbottom is a landscape archaeologist, cultural heritage manager, and theorist specializing in Europe's ancient and prehistoric cultures. Utilizing digital archaeology including drones, photogrammetry, geographical information systems and 3D software, Gail recreates night skies and interprets them against past landscapes.

In this episode we discuss archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy in Neolithic and Bronze Age Scotland. Gail describes the unified roles of community skywatchers and emerging priestly classes, explaining how cosmic order folded into oneness, contrasting with the modern tendency for creating dualities.

Dr. Gail Higginbottom's bio: https://csic.academia.edu/GailHigginbottom/CurriculumVitae

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Having authored over two dozen books on ancient astronomy Professor Anthony F. Aveni is considered one of the founders of Mesoamerican and South American archaeoastronomy.

Anthony is the Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy, Anthropology, and Native American Studies, Emeritus, serving appointments in both Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University. 

Listed in Rolling Stone magazine's 10 best university professors in the U.S. Aveni has lectured in more than 300 universities around the world and has featured on countless television documentaries. 

In this episode we advance our exploration of engineered Inca landscapes as Anthony shares his understanding of the functionality of the ceque system of shrines and alignments radiating from Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire.

Professor Anthony F. Aveni’s website: https://www.anthonyfaveni.com/

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Professor Helen Benigni and Barbara Carter co-authored the best-selling book “The Myth of the Year, Returning to the Origin of the Druid Calendar”. Exploring where Celtic and Greek astronomy influenced mythology the authors presented academically rigorous interpretations of the Coligny calendar discovered in France, and the sacred Eleusian calendar of ancient Greece.

Exploring where the night sky meets ancient mythology in this far-reaching episode you’ll learn how lunar and venetian astronomy inspired ancient builders to monumentalize key stages in the cycles of the moon and Venus. And after delineating the archaeoastronomy of Celtic and Roman temple architecture the researchers outline some of the esoteric aspects of Bronze Age calendrical rituals associated with the moon and Venus.

Illuminating ancestral knowledge through the study of constellations, and presenting supporting artifacts from Ice Age Europe, Helen and Barbara systematically unveil the origins of seasonal myths, revealing the deities of a lesser-known Palaeolithic pantheon.

---Professor Helen Benigni Professional Bio. https://www.dewv.edu/staff/helen-benigni/---


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Having served almost three decades as an archaeologist, explorer, and instructor Dr. Edwin Barnhart, referred to herein as Ed, is Director of the Maya Exploration Center and host of the ArchaeoEd podcast. 

As a distinguished Fellow of the Explorers Club Ed has published numerous papers and he’s featured in over a dozen documentaries about the astronomy and architecture of ancient civilizations.
Ed’s aerial fieldwork in Northwestern Belize led to the discovery of the ancient city of Ma'ax Na, which is recognised as a significant achievement in Classic Maya Period research.

He also directed the Palenque Mapping Project, a groundbreaking three-year initiative documenting over 1100 hitherto unknown maya structures in Palenque. In this episode Ed explains that many of the associations presented between Maya temple architecture and the cycles of Venus are figments of researchers' imaginations, and he replaces modern-myths with facets of Maya cosmology and lunar astronomy.

We also discuss Maya, Muisca and Khmer reverence for the sun at its zenith, and how certain latitudes were made sacred and embroiled in cylindrical rites and rituals. Enjoy this cosmic meandering with one of North America’s most riveting and dynamic archaeological storytellers,Dr. Edwin Barnhart.

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Dr. Edwin Barnhart: https://mayaexploration.com/staff_barnhart.php

ArchaeoEd Podcast: https://archaeoed.com/
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Brian S. Bauer is a Full Professor in the Department of Anthropology in the University of Illinois at Chicago, who applies archaeological and ethno-historical theory and method in his investigations of prehistoric indigenous territories in South America.

In this episode Brian recalls his field surveys and excavations in Peru detailing a highly-revered solstice alignment that was framed by two pillars at the Island of the Sun on Lake Titicaca, and he deconstructs Cuzco’s controversial ceque network of shrines and alignments, which he explored and charted based on fragmented Spanish accounts.

This episode is best enjoyed directly after episode 03 featuring Professor Charlers Stanish, as it expands our investigation inro Inca astronomy, architecture, and creation mythology, through the highly-experienced perspectives of Professor Brian Bauer.

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Dr. Robert Weiner is an Archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Specializing in religion, cognition, and mind, Robert is renowned for his interpretations of ancient Chacoan roads in the US Southwest, which he studies in collaboration with the Navajo Nation.

In episode 02 Professor Steven Lekson outlined this seemingly endless matrix of criss-crossing roads and astronomical alignments, and herein, Robert Weiner takes us deeper into this monumental landscape discussing indigenous mythology, cosmology, spirituality and oral traditions.

We further examine the Chaco Meridian which was outlined by Professor Steve Lekson, revealing that Aztec Ruin, the last bastion of the Anasazi of Chaco Canyon, was built precisely south of Mount Wilson. Was this the alignment that was extended south to Casas Grandes in northern Mexico?

This discussion exists beyond and beneath the constraints of modern philosophy and cosmology, as Dr. Robert Weiner presents the engineered landscapes of New Mexico through holistic and animistic perspectives.

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Dr. Robert Weiner Profession Profile: https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/rob-weiner

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