Papers

A comprehensive statistical evaluation of the Orion–Giza correlation

Allan, E. (2026). Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 29(2), 367–378.

Observability and pharmacological calibration in psychoactive ethnobotany: ceremony duration, admixture selection, and the discovery of ayahuasca

Allan, E. (in press). Ethnobotany Research and Applications.

Quantifying tectonic-climatic circumscription: a reproducible spatial-statistical test at primary-state locations

Land-constrained Monte Carlo baselines for corridor enrichment analysis in archaeology: correcting coastal jitter bias and testing a proposed transcontinental great circle alignment

Submission under review — details withheld until 2026-09-24

Emergent precision in oral traditions: convergence of independent knowledge systems as evidence for observability-driven cultural optimisation

Convergent evolution of fire management across three continents: independent optimisation of burning regimes by Aboriginal Australian, Native Californian, and West African traditions

Songlines and geodesic cognition

Radial versus latitudinal: a county-level discriminant test of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis demographic prediction

Vibration-friction reduction in megalithic stone transport: quantitative physics constraints on acoustic and mechanical mechanisms across 12 sites

Testing claims of mathematical encoding in ancient architecture: nine metrological and pyramid-geometry hypotheses

A pre-registered cost-surface and clustering framework for testing alignment claims on archaeological road networks, with a dual-check primitive against Null-1 degeneracy