American archaeologist who studies astronomical alignments in Native American effigy mound sites in Wisconsin — connecting archaeological evidence of ancient sky-watching to questions about the relationship between cosmic symbolism and human consciousness.
Documents the astronomical orientation of Native American mound sites — demonstrating that ancient peoples encoded cosmological knowledge in their landscape architecture — contributing to the evidence that sky symbolism is a universal feature of human sacred experience.
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