History Fuzz

📊 EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, we sit down for an in-depth conversation with celebrated poet, Cambridge scholar, and Anglican priest Malcolm Guite. The discussion centers on his ambitious four-part epic, Merlin's Isle: An Arthuriad , and its brilliant first installment, Galahad and the Grail . Discover how Guite masterfully bridges faith, theology, and the arts to retell the classic quest to...

Ancient archaeology, history and archaeoastronomy fan? Subscribe to History Fuzz on Youtube and watch this episode with video - https://bitly.cx/5cGey Episode #24. Dr. Robert Barratt: Computational Archaeologist at Queens University, Belfast. Ancient civilizations intentionally aligned monumetal architecture with the stars, but to what extent? In this thought-provoking discussion, Dr. Robert Barra...

For epic ancient history, archaeology and archaeoastronomy subscribe on YouTube: https://bitly.cx/5cGey Episode #23. Professor Timothy Pauketat: Director: Illinois State Archaeological Survey Professor Timothy Pauketat, Director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey, joins us to delve into the history and archaeology of Cahokia, one of North America's most advanced pre-Columbian civilization...

For epic history, archaeology and archaeoastronomy subscribe to History Fuzz on YouTube: https://bitly.cx/5cGey Ancient archaeology and exploration come together as we delve into the expertise of Richard Friedman, a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialist who integrates aerial technologies, remote sensing, and ground surveying at archaeological sites. Joining him is Walter Payne, a Remote...

You are about to explore the intersection of ancient astronomy and prehistoric engineering, at Germany's Magdalenenberg mega mound. Joining us is Dr. Allard Mees, an archaeologist and head of the scientific IT department at the Leibniz institute of archaeology in Mainz, Germany. Allard takes us on an extraordinary journey through, around and above the archaeology of this massive ancient superstruc...

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Antonio César González-Garcia, the President of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) since 2017, a renowned Astrophysicist and Archaeoastronomer whose groundbreaking research bridges the cosmos and culture. With a PhD in Astrophysics from Groningen and extensive fieldwork across Europe, the Near East, and Anatolia, Dr. González-Garcia has dedic...

Professor Steve Gullberg is a master of Andean archaeoastronomy, and in this episode he reveals how Inca structures align with the cosmos to mark celestial events. Discover Inca astronomy, architecture and cosmovision, at the intersection of time and space, in this illuminating episode of History Fuzz. Contact Steven Gullberg: srgullberg@ou.edu Buy Ashley's new book "Ropes and Ruins" here: https:/...

Professor Radoslaw Palonka from Jagiellonian University discusses his innovative archaeoastronomy research at Crow Canyon. This ancient monumental landscape in southwestern Colorado reveals how Ancestral Puebloans integrated celestial observations into their rituals, offering deep insights into their societal and ritualistic complexities. Visit Crow Canyon's official website: https://crowcanyon.or...

Professor Marc Frincu is an authority in distributed systems, big data, smart grids, astronomy, and archaeoastronomy. Marc is also the secretary of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture and vice-president of the Romanian Society of Cultural Astronomy. In this episode Marc guides us deep into the Armenian Highlands and relives his extraordinary discoveries of Bronze Age astronomical devices...

18th-century Freemasons believed medieval church architects in England oriented their buildings with the azimuth of sunrise on the day of the patronal saint. However, having spent over ten years exploring the English countryside with a compass Ian Hinton surveyed the alignments of over 2000 rural churches and his work thoroughly debunks this romantic masonic notion. In this episode Ian discusses t...

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 geogr...

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 i...

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 a...

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 introduc...

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 astron...

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 Anthropol...

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...

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...

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 pill...

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...

Having converted the tables of the sun, moon and planets presented in "Astronomical Algorithms," into computer code, Dr. Robert Barratt is a research scientist at the Queen's University in Belfast who designed and built his own software which he uses to produce 3d simulations of neolithic structures. In this episode Robert shares his struggles against compounding variables, and he highlights the i...

With 25 years of experience excavating and interpreting Scotland’s Neolithic and early Bronze Age monumental landscapes, Dr. Kenneth Brophy is a senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. Kenny and I first met way back in 2002 when he was a young archaeology student excavating standing stones in my homeland of CaIthness, on the north east coast of Scotland, wher...

Charles Stanish was a Professor of Anthropology and director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA for 20 years, before he served as Executive Director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment at the University of South Florida. Having conducted extensive research into trade, war, and labor organization in human cooperation within prehistoric societies in Per...

In the last episode my guest referred to the Chaco Meridian, a north to south alignment in the southwestern United States marked by Ancestral Puebloan power centers. Following that thread, herein I speak with Stephen Lekson, a Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder, who currently serves as Contributing Editor for Archa...

This cosmo-mythologically charged episode features Professor Giulio Magli, an Italian astrophysicist and archaeoastronomer serving as the Head of the Department of Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Milan, where he teaches Italy’s first official course in archaeoastronomy. With a background in relativistic astrophysics, for 25 years Giulio has applied the principles of mathematics to the...