Manuel Arturo Izquierdo Peña | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Education | Université de Montréal |
| Known for | Analysis of theMuisca 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) |
Manuel Arturo Izquierdo Peña is a Colombiananthropologist who has contributed to the knowledge of theMuisca and other pre-Columbian cultures, among othersSan Agustín, Colombia. His main work has been onarchaeoastronomy of theMuisca calendar.
Izquierdo Peña obtained his degree in anthropology from theUniversidad Nacional de Colombia in 1997[1] and published his thesis titledProspección 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 theUniversité de Montréal titledThe 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 complexlunisolar calendar used by the Muisca of theAltiplano Cundiboyacense.[3][4] In this publication and later work[5] Izquierdo Peña analyzed the work byMuisca scholarsJosé Domingo Duquesne,Alexander von Humboldt, Vicente Restrepo andPedro Simón on the Muisca calendar. He also described theChoachí Stone, a rock artifact found in the village ofChoachí in the 1940s that probably was a calculator for the use of the complex calendar.[6][7]
