William Romain (archaeologist)

William Romain is a Research Associate with the Indiana University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Managing Editor for the Journal of Astronomy in Culture.

He serves on the editorial board of the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and The Explorers Club.

He has conducted archaeoastronomic fieldwork in the Eastern United States, China, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar (Burma).

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.

[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.