Euan Wallace MacKie was a British archaeologist and anthropologist.
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Euan MacKie was a prominent figure in the field of Archaeoastronomy.
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Euan MacKie was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1973.
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Euan MacKie spent six months in Central America as member of the Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras excavating Mayan archaeological sites in British Honduras between 1959 and 1960.
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Euan MacKie conjectured that personal motivation might play a part in determining an archaeologist's attitudes to orthodox and unorthodox ideas.
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Euan MacKie led several major excavations along with studies of stone circles and standing stones of the later neolithic period, in particular their astronomical and calendrical qualities.
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Euan MacKie conducted surveys into the level of skill in astronomy and geometry existed in Neolithic Britain.
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Euan MacKie's bibliography includes over 120 books, articles and papers.
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Euan MacKie braved to speak out on several controversial areas of science, suggesting a method of testing various Catastrophism theories in the New Scientist in 1973.
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Euan MacKie noticed that two squares of a side equal to the Egyptian remen generates a root five diagonal that is very close to the megalithic yard.
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Euan MacKie showed the links to the Sumerian su-du3-a, ancient mining rods used in the Austrian Tyrol and an Indus Valley measuring rod excavated from the Mohenjo-daro site.