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Anthony
F. Aveni is the Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy
and Anthropology, serving appointments in both Departments of
Physics and Astronomy and Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate
University, where he has taught since 1963. Dr. Aveni helped
develop the field of archaeoastronomy and now is considered
one of the founders of Mesoamerican archaeoastronomy, in particular
for his research in the astronomical history of the Maya Indians
of ancient Mexico. Dr. Aveni is a lecturer, speaker, and editor/author
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Dr.
Edwin C. Krupp is an astronomer and Director of Griffith
Observatory, a position he has held since his appointment in
1974. He is now recognized internationally as an expert on ancient,
prehistoric, and traditional astronomy, and has visited nearly
1800 ancient and prehistoric sites throughout the world, regularly
leading field study tours to exotic locations that have astronomical
and archaeological interest.
Dr.
Krupp is the author and editor of several books on the celestial
component of human belief systems, including In Search of
Ancient Astronomies, Archaeoastronomy and the Roots of Science,
and Echoes of the Ancient Skies. He has received numerous
national awards for his work, including the 1989 Klumpke-Roberts
Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding
contributions to public understanding and appreciation of
astronomy, the 1996 G. Bruce Blair Medal from the Western
Amateur Astronomers for substantive contributions to amateur
and public astronomy, and the 2002 Clifford W. Holmes Award.
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Dr.
Clive L. N. Ruggles
President of ISAAC and co-editor of ARCHAEOASTRONOMY: The
Journal of Astronomy in Culture.
After graduating in Mathematics from Cambridge University
and obtaining a D.Phil in Astrophysics from the University
of Oxford, Professor Ruggles worked for some years as a research
fellow in the Department of Archaeology at University Cardiff,
Wales, before moving to the University of Leicester in 1982.
At Leicester he lectured in Computer Science for a number
of years before moving into the School of Archaeology and
Ancient History. Although his background is diverse, Professor
Ruggles has worked for many years on astronomy in prehistoric
Britain and Ireland, and he has strong interests in theoretical
and methodological issues in archaeoastronomy. Professor Ruggles
now holds the title of Professor of Archaeoastronomy at the
University of Leicester, the first and only chair of its kind
in the world. For more information about his work, please
visit his web collection of archaeoastronomy imagery and curricular
materials. You can contact him at rug at le.ac.uk.
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Dr.
John B. Carlson
The founder and Director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy
and the Editor-in-Chief of ARCHAEOASTRONOMY: The Journal of
Astronomy in Culture.
Dr.
Carlson is a Ph.D radio and extragalactic astronomer and also
a trained archaeologist. He is Adjunct Professor in the University
Honors Program at the University of Maryland, teaching a course
called "In Search of Ancient Astronomies." He is
a specialist in Native American astronomy, with a focus on
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly of the Maya and highland
Mexican cultures. For a brief introduction to his work, please
see "America's Ancient Skywatchers" in the March
1990 issue of National Geographic Magazine. You can reach
him at tlaloc at umd.edu
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Dr.
David S. P. Dearborn
Co-Editor of ARCHAEOASTRONOMY: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture
and A&E News.
Dr. Dearborn, currently a research physicist at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratories, has held positions at the Copernicus
Institute in Warsaw, the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge,
the California Institute of Technology, and Steward Observatory
in Tucson. He has worked extensively in astrophysics (nucleosysnthesis,
stellar evolution, and astro-particle physics), archaeoastronomy
(research on the Inca as well as editing the newsletter and
journal), nuclear weapons design and testing, and re-entry vehicle
flight testing. He is now the principal investigator on a Strategic
Initiative to develop a three-dimensional stellar evolution
and structure code for astrophysical research in a massively
parallel environment. He has received twp Dudley awards for
research in the History of Astronomy, three Weapons Recognition
of Excellence awards from the DoE and was the 1998 Shelby Fellow
of the Australian Academy of Science. He holds a Ph.D. from
the University of Texas at Austin. You can contact Dave at ddearborn
at llnl.gov.
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