William F Romain

William Francis Romain (born 1948) is an American archaeologist, archaeoastronomer, and author. William Romain received his Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Leicester and M.A. and B.A. degrees in anthropology from Kent State University. He specializes in the study of ancient religions, cognitive archaeology, and archaeoastronomy. He is a Research Associate with the Indiana University, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and serves on the editorial board of the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and The Explorers Club. Romain is a past advisor to the Board of Trustees for the Heartland Earthworks Conservancy,[1] past Research Associate with the Newark Earthworks Center at Ohio State University and recipient of the Archaeological Society of Ohio's Robert Converse award for Outstanding Contributions to Ohio Archaeology.[2] William Romain is a licensed private pilot (fixed wing aircraft) and holds certification in marine celestial navigation. He has conducted archaeoastronomic fieldwork in the Eastern United States, China, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar (Burma). In 2011 Romain led a team of archaeologists (The Serpent Mound Project) in an investigation of Serpent Mound, in Adams County, Ohio.[3] This was the first major investigation of the effigy in more than one hundred years and included Geoprobe coring, hand coring, limited excavation, ground-penetrating radar, and electric resistivity analysis. Among the results were new radiocarbon dates for the effigy suggesting it was built about 2,300 years ago by people of the Early Woodland period.[4][5] Other work has included archaeoastronomic findings for Poverty Point and Watson Brake in Louisiana, Mound City in Ohio, the Newark Earthworks and Great Hopewell Road in Ohio, and Cahokia in Illinois.[6][7] Most recently William Romain has published new archaeoastronomic findings for Angkor Wat in Cambodia,[8] the Great Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq,[9] Xanadu in Inner Mongolia,[10] and the Jokhang, Samye, and Tradruk temples in Tibet.[11]

Books
  • An Archaeology of the Sacred: Adena-Hopewell Astronomy and Landscape Archaeology (The Ancient Earthworks Project, 2015)
  • Shamans of the Lost World: A Cognitive Approach to the Prehistoric Religion of the Ohio Hopewell (AltaMira Press, 2009)
  • Mysteries of the Hopewell: Astronomers, Geometers, and Magicians of the Eastern Woodlands (University of Akron Press, 2000)

References
  1. "Heartland Earthworks Conservancy is Founded « Heartland Earthworks Conservancy". www.earthworksconservancy.org. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  2. "Ohio Archaeologist: Volume 42, Number 2 (Spring, 1992)". 2 March 1992. hdl:1811/55904. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Jessica E. Saraceni (March 30, 2011). "Archaeology Magazine News Archive 2008-2012". Archaeology Magazine. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  4. Herrmann, Edward W.; Monaghan, G. William; Romain, William F.; Schilling, Timothy M.; Burks, Jarrod; Leone, Karen L.; Purtill, Matthew P.; Tonetti, Alan C. (2014). "A new multistage construction chronology for the Great Serpent Mound, USA". Journal of Archaeological Science. 50: 117–125. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2014.07.004.
  5. Romain, William (2019). "Serpent Mound in its Woodland Period Context: Second Rejoinder to Lepper". Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. 44 (1): 57–83.
  6. Romain, William F. (2018) "Ancient Skywatchers of the Eastern Woodlands". In Archaeology & Ancient Religion in the American Midcontinent, edited by Brad H. Koldehoff and Timothy R. Pauketat. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
  7. Romain, William F. (2015) "Adena-Hopewell Earthworks and the Milky Way Path of Souls". In Tracing the Relational: The Archaeology of Worlds, Spirits, and Temporalities, edited by Meghan E. Buchanan and B. Jacob Skousen, pp. 54-82. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
  8. Romain, William F. (2018). "Solstice Alignments at Angkor Wat and Nearby Temples: Connecting to the Cycles of Time". Journal of Skyscape Archaeology. 4 (2): 176–200. doi:10.1558/jsa.35712. ISSN 2055-3498.
  9. Romain, William F. (2019). "Lunar alignments at Ur: Entanglements with the Moon God Nanna". Journal of Skyscape Archaeology. 5 (2): 151–176. doi:10.1558/jsa.39074. ISSN 2055-3498.
  10. Romain, William F. (2017-04-03). "The archaeoastronomy and feng shui of Xanadu: Kublai Khan's imperial Mongolian capital". Time and Mind. 10 (2): 145–174. doi:10.1080/1751696X.2017.1310567. ISSN 1751-696X.
  11. Romain, William. "Subduing the Demons of Tibet: Geomantic Magic During the Yarlung Dynasty: A Landscape Archaeology Assessment". Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture. forthcoming in press March 2021.
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