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AKaulins (B.A. University of Nebraska, J.D. Stanford University) is the user name of [Andis Kaulins], founder of the Megalithic Wiki at Wikia, who envisions the creation of a worldwide compendium of megalithic sites at one easily accessible and updatable online location.

Kaulins is a sysop (administrator) and bureaucrat for the Megalithic Wiki at Wikia, drawing on a broad depth of experience in the study of prehistory. He has presented [conference papers] on megalithic cultures and has authored several [articles] and [books] in this field, including his most recent book, [Stars Stones and Scholars], which examines the prehistoric significance of the megaliths from the standpoint of astronomy. Kaulins maintains the megalithic website [Megaliths.net] online, and, since 1999, has moderated [LexiLine], an online group on the history of civilization, a community which is now approaching 400 members.

The founding of a wiki also fits in well with Kaulins' expertise as co-author of a comprehensive German-English English-German dictionary for the world's largest maker of foreign language dictionaries. A wiki is an expanded form of dictionary, requiring broader knowledge of the subject matter and similar precision in its written presentation.

Kaulins has an educational and professional background focused on law, the analysis of evidence, research and writing. He has been affiliated with one of the world's major law firms ([Paul, Weiss] in New York City) and has worked at several universities both at home and abroad, including the [University of Nebraska], [Stanford University], [Arizona State University], and the [University of Kiel], last teaching law, legal research and legal writing at the [University of Trier Law School] [FFA program] in [Trier], Germany. His law journal, the blawg (law blog) [LawPundit], has been featured in the [Technolawyer] [BlawgWorld 2006] and will again be featured in Blawgworld 2007.

Kaulins sees the megaliths to pose a problem of the interpretation of evidence particularly, a situation which finds many parallels in the legal field. Archaeologists and astronomers have laid claim to the megaliths, without, however, being able to explain them satisfactorily, in which case experience indicates that only interdisciplinary study and analysis of the evidence will lead to a solution. For Kaulins, this generally means, as in the law, that we simply do not have enough information to derive the correct solution. The Megalithic Wiki will help to overcome that barrier.

Kaulins does not see the Megalithic Wiki as a duplication of other wikis or of existing megalithic websites. Rather, he hopes that megalithic researchers around the world will use the Megalithic Wiki to create a massive information resource about megalithic sites and cultures.

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