Manuel Arturo Izquierdo Peña is a Colombian anthropologist who has contributed to the knowledge of the Muisca and other pre-Columbian cultures, among others San Agustín, Colombia. His main work has been on archaeoastronomy of the Muisca calendar.
Manuel Arturo Izquierdo Peña | |
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Nationality | Colombian |
Education | Université de Montréal |
Known for | Analysis of the Muisca calendar |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Archaeoastronomy, Muisca astronomy |
Institutions | Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Université de Montréal |
Thesis | The Muisca Calendar: An approximation to the timekeeping system of the ancient native people of the northeastern Andes of Colombia (2008) |
Biography
Izquierdo Peña obtained his degree in anthropology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1997[1] and published his thesis titled Prospección arqueoastronómica en la cultura de San Agustín ("Archeoastronomical prospection in the San Agustín culture") in 1998.[2]
In 2008 he published his MSc. thesis at the Université de Montréal titled The Muisca Calendar: An approximation to the timekeeping system of the ancient native people of the northeastern Andes of Colombia in which he analyzed the Muisca calendar, a complex lunisolar calendar used by the Muisca of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense.[3][4] In this publication and later work[5] Izquierdo Peña analyzed the work by Muisca scholars José Domingo Duquesne, Alexander von Humboldt, Vicente Restrepo and Pedro Simón on the Muisca calendar. He also described the Choachí Stone, a rock art pice found in the village of Choachí in the 1940s that functioned as a calculator for the use of the complex calendar.[6][7]
Publications
- 2014 - Calendario Muisca ("Muisca calendar")[5]
- 2009 - The Muisca Calendar: An approximation to the timekeeping system of the ancient native people of the northeastern Andes of Colombia[4]
- 2001 - Astronomia para Todos ("Astronomy for everyone")[1]
- 2000 - Arqueoastronomia en Colombia ("Archeoastronomy in Colombia")[1]
- 1999 - Los Astrónomos de Piedra ("The rocky astronomers")[1]
- 1998 - Sistema de simulacion de Paisajes para Arqueoastronomia ("Simulation system of landscapes for archeoastronomy")[1]
See also
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