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Faculty » Karl Taube
"Hero Twin, bloodletting before one of the World Trees"
1st Century, BC
San Bartolo, Guatemala
photograph by Karl Taube
Professor of Anthropology
Office: 1320C Watkins Hall
Phone: (951) 827-3917
E-mail: karl.taube@ucr.edu
Ph.D., Yale University
In addition to extensive archaeological and linguistic fieldwork in Yucatan, Professor Taube has participated on archaeological projects in Chiapas, Mexico, coastal Ecuador, highland Peru, Copan, Honduras and in the Motagua Valley of Guatemala. Taube is currently serving as the Project Iconographer for the San Bartolo Project in the Peten of Guatemala. Taube has broad interests in the archaeology and ethnology of Mesoamerica and the American Southwest, including the development of agricultural symbolism in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica and the American Southwest, and the relation of Teotihuacan to the Classic Maya. Much of his recent research and publications center upon the writing and religious systems of ancient Mesoamerica.