Pre-registration: Independent Monte Carlo Verification of Paleopole Orientation Clustering in the Buildreps Database

Pre-registration document for an independent Monte Carlo verification of the central empirical claim in Mario Buildreps' "Archaeorientation" framework — that the orientations of ~993 ancient pyramids, temples, and megalithic structures cluster around five proposed paleopole positions along the 47°W meridian. This document was written, GPG-signed, OpenTimestamped on the Bitcoin blockchain, and deposited on Zenodo BEFORE the database file was opened, so that the analysis methodology cannot be revised after seeing the data. The SHA-256 hash of the exact database file to be analyzed is embedded in §4 of the PDF; readers obtaining the database from the data owner can verifybyte-for-byte equality with the file analyzed here. Analysis has not yet been performed. Code, results, and conclusions will be released subsequently via the linked GitHub repository, with the data owner given 14 days' notice before any public release. Repository: https://github.com/salahealer9/paleopole-orientation-verification Database SHA-256: 426dd95f4f1d62dbb2ea6b7be0bd2d1499834fb8b2c923ca59299384fd4ddb7c