Geometry, Measure and Astronomy in Ancient Britain | Dr Euan MacKie | Megalithomania Interview

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Listen to this episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FVWeiJWMjKhST6awdJu6Z. Watch the full lecture from Dr Euan MacKie filmed at Megalithomania 2013: https://youtu.be/f04UrM39etE MacKie graduated with a degree in Archeology & Anthropology from St. John's College, Cambridge in 1959 and has a PhD from the University of Glasgow where he was an honorary research fellow. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1973, Keeper of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1974 and Deputy Director from 1986 - 1995. He was also member of the Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, an Honorary Research Fellow of Hunterian Museum until 2005 and an Honorary Research Associate of the National Museums of Scotland from 2007. Mackie was also a member of the Prehistoric Society and Glasgow Archaeological Society, of which he was president in the 1980s. His primary research interests included the Iron Age of Atlantic Scotland and The nature of the esoteric/specialised knowledge possessed by the chambered tomb and standing stone-builders of Neolithic times. He has written hundreds of articles & papers and his most well known book is The Megalith Builders, published in 1977. He was noted for being the first person to suggest the term Archaeoastronomy, but modestly responded by saying, "...the genesis and modern flowering of archaeoastronomy must surely lie in the work of Alexander Thom in Britain between the 1930s and the 1970s." In memory of Euan Wallace MacKie (10 February 1936 – 2 November 2020). https://linktr.ee/megalithomania https://www.megalithomania.co.uk Copyright Megalithomania MMXXVI. All Rights Reserved.