Dr. Euan MacKie - Megalithomania Interview, May 2013

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Channel: MegalithomaniaUK · 2013 · Travel & Events

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WATCH FULL LECTURE HERE: https://youtu.be/f04UrM39etE. Get DVD or download with full lecture and interview here:  http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/2013dvds.html.MacKie graduated with a degree in Archeology & Anthropology from St. John's College at the University of Cambridge in 1959 and has a PhD from the University of Glasgow where he is now 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 took early part-time retirement in 1995 with full retirement 1998. He is also member of the Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, an Honorary Research Fellow of Hunterian until 2005 and an Honorary Research Associate of the National Museums of Scotland from 2007. Mackie is also a member of the Prehistoric Society and Glasgow Archaeological Society, of which he was president in the 1980s. His primary research interests include the Iron Age of Atlantic Scotland and The nature of the esoteric/specialised knowledge possessed by the chambered tomb and standing stone-bulders of Neolithic times. He has written hundreds of articles & papers and his most well known book is The Megalith Builders, published in 1977. He is an advocate of Alexander Thom and coined the term 'archaeoastronomy'.
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