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METAGEUM '07
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Introduction to Astro-archaeology
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About Stuart Mason
Stuart Mason is the founder of The Antiquarian Society, a registered not-for-profit organisation in England that promotes archaeology and astronomy at a grass-roots, hands-on level.
Having travelled twice around the world Stuart has explored many ancient temples, from the Jungles of Yucatan to the monasteries of the Himalayas, as well as discovering and documenting ancient temples of the South Pacific jungles long forgotten and reclaimed by nature. He has met the wise, and the wicked, and been involved in many native shamanic ceremonies.
Since founding The Antiquarian Society, Stuart has overseen the construction of a unique astro-archaeological database, whose purpose is to record every single astronomical effect at an ancient place anywhere on the planet. Stuart believes that by promoting the ancient knowledge documented in this database, from the nursery school to the bowling green, The Antiquarian Society can foster a sense of environmental fascination that will ultimately contribute to a broader appreciation of our environment and our responsibility to it.
Stuart's talk is an Introduction to Astro-archaeology and is delivered in such a way as to encourage the amateur archaeologist in all of us to get out into the field and find alignments. A discussion on how the sun, moon, stars and planets are encoded into ancient temples, stone circles and pyramids. He will explore rises, sets of celestial bodies and how shadow can move at ancient sites around the world.
Web site: www.theantiquariansociety.com.