Gary Urton

Gary Urton (* July 7, 1946 in Alabama (USA) ) is an American anthropologist and university professor. He is known as an authority for Quipu, the node font of the Incas.

He studied from 1964 at the Eastern New Mexico University, and from 1966 onwards History at the University of New Mexico with a bachelor's degree in 1969. Afterwards, he continued his studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign continued, with the master 's degree in Ancient History in 1971 and a PhD in anthropology in 1979. For the dissertation on ethno astronomy and calendar client, he undertook fieldwork in Peru. From 1978 he was in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Colgate University, Hamilton (New York). Since 2002 he teaches at Harvard University in the Department of Anthropology. He had been a guest professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

In a 2003 published book, he breaks down the Quipu writings into primitives. The still not deciphered knot-writing of the Incas encoded in his view, in addition to numbers and stories.

2000 he was a MacArthur Fellow. Since 2009, he has an honorary professorship at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

Publications

  • Myths of the Inca, Reclam Stuttgart 2002 ISBN 3-15-030025-8 ( original Inca Myths, British Museum Press / University of Texas Press 1999 )
  • Signs of the Inka Khipu: binary coding in the Andean knotted string records, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2003
  • The Social life of numbers. A Quechua ontology of numbers and philosophy of arithmetic, University of Texas Press 1997
  • The history of a myth: Pacariqtambo and the origin of the Incas, University of Texas Press, Austin 1990
  • Editor with Clive Ruggles Sky watching in the ancient world, University of Colorado Press, Boulder 2007
  • Editor: Animal myths and metaphors in South America, University of Utah Press 1985
  • Editor with Anthony Aveni Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 385, 1982
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