Euan MacKie
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Euan Wallace MacKie was a British archaeologist and anthropologist. He was a prominent figure in the field of Archaeoastronomy. Biography MacKie was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon between 1946 and 1954 and later graduated with a degree in Archeology & Anthropology from St. John's College at the University of Cambridge in 1959, and had a PhD from the University of Glasgow where he was an honorary research fellow. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1973. Keeper of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1974 and Deputy Director from 1986 - 1995, he took early part-time retirement in 1995 with full retirement in 1998. He was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland , an Honorary Research Fellow of Hunterian Museum until 2005 and an Honorary Research Associate of the National Museums of Scotland from 2007. Mackie was also a member of the Prehistoric Society and Glasgow Archaeological Society, of which he was president in the 1980s.
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Published Works
- The Origin and Development of the Broch and Wheelhouse Building Cultures of the Scottish Iron Age (1965) (43)
- Radiocarbon Dates and the Scottish Iron Age (1969) (36)
- Science and society in prehistoric Britain (1978) (36)
- Prehistoric standing stone sites (1978) (27)
- Maeshowe and the winter solstice: ceremonial aspects of the Orkney Grooved Ware culture (1997) (26)
- ENGLISH MIGRANTS AND SCOTTISH BROCHS(1) (1971) (23)
- The roundhouses, brochs and wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700 BC-AD 500 : architecture and material culture (2002) (23)
- Archaeological tests on supposed prehistoric astronomical sites in Scotland (1974) (20)
- New Light on the End of Classic Maya Culture at Benque Viejo, British Honduras (1961) (17)
- The Leckie broch, Stirlingshire: an interim report (1982) (17)
- The megalith builders (1977) (16)
- The Prehistoric Solar Calendar: An Out-of-fashion Idea Revisited with New Evidence (2009) (15)
- Radiocarbon dates for two Mesolithic shell heaps and a Neolithic axe factory in Scotland (1972) (14)
- Some new quernstones from brochs and duns (1974) (13)
- TIMBER-LACED AND VITRIFIED WALLS IN IRON AGE FORTS: CAUSES OF VITRIFICATION (1969) (12)
- Brochs and the Hebridean Iron Age (1965) (12)
- THE BROCH CULTURES OF ATLANTIC SCOTLAND: ORIGINS, HIGH NOON AND DECLINE. PART 1: EARLY IRON AGE BEGINNINGS c.700–200 BC (2008) (12)
- New excavations on the Monamore Neolithic chambered cairn, Lamlash, Isle of Arran, in 1961 (1966) (11)
- Gurness and Midhowe brochs in Orkney: some problems of misinterpretation (1994) (11)
- Dun an Ruigh Ruaidh, Loch Broom, Ross & Cromarty Excavations in 1968 and 1978 (1980) (10)
- Excavations at Crosskirk Broch, Caithness. By H. Fairhurst. 29.5 × 21 cm. Pp. 187, 107 ills. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (Monograph series, 3), 1984. ISBN 0-903903-03-2. £20.00. (1985) (10)
- Impact on the Scottish Iron Age of the discoveries at Leckie broch (1987) (10)
- Stone Age Science in Britain? [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (9)
- THE BROCH CULTURES OF ATLANTIC SCOTLAND. PART 2. THE MIDDLE IRON AGE: HIGH NOON AND DECLINE c.200 BC–AD 550 (2010) (9)
- New Light on Neolithic Rock Carving The petroglyphs at Greenland (Auchentorlie), Dunbartonshire (1988) (8)
- Argyll: An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments. Vol. 2: Lorne (1975) (7)
- The Iron Age Semibrochs of Atlantic Scotland: A Case Study in the Problems of Deductive Reasoning (1991) (7)
- Continuity Over Three Thousand Years of Northern Prehistory: The ‘tel’ at Howe, Orkney (1998) (6)
- Archaeoastronomy in the Old World: IMPLICATIONS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY (1982) (5)
- Thoughts on radiocarbon dating (1971) (5)
- Excavations at Xunantunich and Pomona, Belize, in 1959-60 : a ceremonial centre and an earthen mound of the Maya Classic period (1985) (5)
- A prehistoric calendrical site in Argyll? (1985) (4)
- Brochs and the Empire: The impact of Rome on Iron Age Scotland as seen in the Leckie broch excavations (2017) (4)
- The structure and skills of British Neolithic Society: a brief response to Clive Ruggles & Gordon Barclay (2002) (4)
- Two Radiocarbon Dates from a Clyde-Solway Chambered Cairn (1964) (3)
- Three Iron Age rotary querns from southern Scotland. (1994) (3)
- Excavations at Clickhimin, Shetland . By J. R. C. Hamilton. Pp. 193, figs. 74 including plans, sections, maps and charts, pls. 43. H.M.S.O., 1968. Price £6 10 s . (1970) (2)
- Two querns from Appin (2002) (2)
- Excavations at Xunantunich and Pomona Belize in 1959-1960: A ceremonial centre and an earthen mound of the Maya Classic period: A ceremonial centre and an earthen mound of the Maya Classic period (1985) (2)
- A Rosetta Stone for the Prehistoric Solar Calendar? Kerbstone K15 at Knowth, Ireland (2013) (2)
- Iron Age and Early Historic Occupation of Jonathan's Cave, East Wemyss (1986) (2)
- A late single-piece dug-out canoe from Loch Doon, Ayrshire (1984) (1)
- Excavations at Dun Ardtreck, Skye, in 1964 and 1965 (2002) (1)
- The Glasgow Conference on Ceremonial and Science in Prehistoric Britain (1976) (1)
- WILLIAM HUNTER AND CAPTAIN COOK The 18th Century Ethnographical Collection in the Hunterian Museum (1985) (1)
- Some Eighteenth Century Ferryhouses in Appin, Lorn, Argyll: the Development of the Single-Storeyed Mortared Stone Cottage in the West Highlands (1997) (1)
- John W. Hedges. Bu, Gurness and the Brochs of Orkney . Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1987. British Series 163. 3 volumes, 637 pages, 286 illustrations . £42 paperback (1987) (1)
- colin Renfrew, ed. The Prehistory of Orkney BC 4000–1000 AD. 316 pp, 40 figs and maps, 99 pls. Edinburgh University Press, 1990. £14.95, paperback. (1989) (1)
- Man's place in Nature (1979) (1)
- Philip Barker. Techniques of archaeological excavation. 185 × 245mm, pp. 283, 86 black and white ills. London: Batsford, 3rd edn. 1995. ISBN 0 1734 7169 7. Paperback £18.99. (1994) (0)
- Ian Morrison. Landscape with lake dwellings: the crannogs of Scotland . Edinburgh: University Press, 1985. 117 pp., 67 illus. , 7 in colour . £10 hardback , £6 paperback . (1987) (0)
- Prehistoric calendar (1985) (0)
- South Uist: Archaeology and History of a Hebridean Island. By Mike Parker Pearson, Niall Sharples and Jim Symonds. 250mm. Pp 224, ills. Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2004. ISBN 0752429051. £17.99 (pbk). (2006) (0)
- Prehistoric Orkney . By Anna Ritchie. 250mm. Pp. 128, 95 ills, 11 col. pls. London: Batsford for Historic Scotland, 1995. ISBN 0-7134-7593-5. £499 (p/b). (1996) (0)
- Towards a new interpretation of Gilmerton Cove – a possible Druid temple? (2019) (0)
- Anne O'Connor & D. V. Clarke (eds): From the Stone Age to the ‘Forty-Five’: studies presented to R. B. K. Stevenson . Edinburgh: John Donald, 1983. 622 pp., 261 illustrations. £30.00 (1985) (0)
- The Thinking behind the Design: Archaeology in the new Museum of Scotland (2001) (0)
- R.W. Feacham, Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. 2 maps and 50 illustrations. Batsford, London, 2nd edn. 1977, reprinted 1992. £12.99. (1991) (0)
- Professor Challenger and his Lost Neolithic World: The Compelling Story of Alexander Thom and British Archaeoastronomy (2021) (0)
- Ian G Shepherd, Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Grampian. 184 pp., numerous figures and plates (some in colour), the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1987, £6.95. (1986) (0)
- Ronald W. B. Morris: The prehistoric rock art of Argyll. Poole: Dolphin Press, 1977. 128 pp., numerous pls. and figs. (unnumbered). £3.00. (1978) (0)
- A Dwelling Site of the Earlier Iron Age at Balevullin, Tiree, excavated in 1912 by A Henderson Bishop (1965) (0)
- Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras: Discussion (1962) (0)
- J C Barrett, A P Fitzpatrick and Leslie Machines, eds.. Barbarians and Romans in North-west Europe from the later Republic to late Antiquity. 241pp & 49 maps and line drawings. BAR International Series 471. Oxford, 1989: £15.00. (1987) (0)
- Excavations at the Broch of Leckie, Stirlingshire (2002) (0)
- Notes: (1) The Lang Cairn, Dumbarton, Muir (1963) (0)
- Sophisticated astronomy (1979) (0)
- Glyn Daniel & Elaine Paintin (eds): The illustrated encyclopaedia of archaeology. London: Macmillan, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977. 224 pp., 71 pls., 21 figs., 1 chart. £8.95; $17.95. (1979) (0)
- Book Reviews: Time Stands Still: New Light on Megalithic Science by Keith Critchlow (1983) (0)
- Crannogs in the Clyde: Erskine and Old Kilpatrick (2022) (0)
- Creation deduced (1982) (0)
- Noel Fojut. A guide to prehistoric Shetland, 73 pp, 8 figs, 4 pls. The Shetland Times, Lerwick, 1981. No price. (1981) (0)
- Sheila M. Elsdon Christian MacLagan: Stirling's formidable lady antiquarian (2005) (0)
- "The Megalith Builders", Euan Mackie, Oxford 1977 : [recenzja] / Z. Krzak. (1978) (0)
- Studies in Scottish Antiquity presented to Stewart Cruden ed. D Breeze, John Donald, Edinburgh: 489 pp., 206 illus., £30.00. (1984) (0)
- Too tolerant (1981) (0)
- Evan Hadingham: Stone circles and standing stones. London: Heinemann, 1975. 239 pp., 102 pls., 53 unnumbered figs. £6.50. (1976) (0)
- The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland : Peeblesshire: an Inventory of the Ancient Monuments. London: HMSO, 1967. 2 vols. continuously paginated; 391 pp., 142 pp. of pls., 313 figs. £10 10s. (1967) (0)
- JOHN NORTH. Stonehenge: Neolithic man and the cosmos . xliv+609 pages. 212 illustrations, 29 plates. 1996. London: HarperCollins; 0-00-255773-8 hardback £25. (1997) (0)
- Iron Age pottery from the Gress Lodge earth-house, Stornoway, Lewis (1967) (0)
- A. L. F. Rivet (ed.): The Iron Age in Northern Britain . Edinburgh: University Press, 1967. 163 pp., 14 pls., 45 figs., 1 map (separate). 42s. (1966) (0)
- Ronald W. B. Morris: The prehistoric rock art of Galloway and the Isle of Man . Poole: Blandford Press, 1979. 192 pp., 34 maps, 154 pls., 98 figs.: paperback £7.95. (1981) (0)
- Unfair Stigmatization (2012) (0)
- Patrick Ashmore. Calanais: the standing stones. 210 × 200m, pp. 52, 27 black and white and 42 colour ills. Stornoway: Urras nan Tursachan, Ltd. 1995. ISBN 0 86152 161 7. Paperback, £4.95. (1994) (0)
- Continuity Over Three Thousand Years of Northern Prehistory: The ‘tel’ at Howe, Orkney (1998) (0)
- "The Megalith Builders", E. MacKie, Oxford 1977 : [recenzja] / Zygmunt Krzak. (1978) (0)
- Red-haired "Celts" are better termed Caledonians. (1984) (0)
- Orcadian heritage (1980) (0)
- Book Reviews (2011) (0)
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