Monthly Public Lecture  
Date/Time: Monday May 8 2006 at 8:00pm  
Title: "Archaeoastronomical Discoveries"
Speaker:                                         

                               By Paul Griffin

Description:            


              "Archaeoastronomical Discoveries"


LECTURE PART 1 :  

 Discussion of Stonehenge Archaoastronomy touching on its contributors; Gerald hawkins, Norman Lockyear, William Stukeley, Peter Newham, R. L. Martin & R.Colton, and Fred Hoyle.  Plus a unique simple mathematical interpretation of Stonehenge by this author.

LECTURE PART 2:  

World's Oldest Eclipses preserved in stone.Discussion of interpretations and factors leading to measurements of eclipses. Modelling of ancient eclipses by
Stephenson, Pang, Dubal & Koutchmy, Banjevic and Dr. Balakrishna. 

PAUL GRIFFIN : 

is an autodictat(self-taught) in the study of Archaeoastronomy and first got bitten by the bug of megalithics back in the Mid-1970s. His interest in astronomy started as a pre-teen and he combined it with archaeology.  Currently he is doing a project that may validate Alexander Thom's idea
that the Neolithics of Western Europe could differentiate small changes in the sun or moon position on the horizon by the naked eye. He lives in Dublin and is an independent researcher.



       

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Venue: Henry Grattan Building, DCU, Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
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