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William F. Romain

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Archaeology and ancient environmental studiesHistorical and Architectural StudiesArchaeological Research and ProtectionGeology and Paleoclimatology ResearchAncient Egypt and Archaeology

Publications

30

Citations

104

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

20

Publishing since 2006

Research summary
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William F. Romain studies archaeoastronomy and landscape archaeology, examining how ancient peoples oriented monuments, earthworks, and temples to celestial events like solstices and lunar cycles. His work spans sites across the world, including Native American mound complexes in the eastern United States (such as Cahokia and Serpent Mound), Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and imperial sites in Mongolia and Tibet. He also investigates practical methods for measuring directional alignments in the field.

Archaeoastronomy (astronomical alignments of ancient sites)Landscape archaeologyNative American mound and earthwork studiesCross-cultural monument orientationField methods for direction-finding

Publication activity has been relatively steady over the last decade, averaging a few papers per year with a mild dip around 2024.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.8/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 5 publications5182019: 2 publications192020: 2 publications202021: 3 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 1 publication242025: 3 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Skyscape Archaeology×9
  • Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology×8
  • Journal of Astronomy in Culture×4
  • Time and Mind×2
  • The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology×2

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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