Gary Urton

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Skywatching in the Ancient World

New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy

University Press of Colorado

Compiled in honor of Anthony F. Aveni, America's leading archaeoastronomer, Skywatching in the Ancient World offers state-of-the-art work in cultural astronomy by well-known experts in Mayan glyphic studies, cultural history, ethnohistory, and the history of science and of religions.

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Narrative Threads

Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu

University of Texas Press

In this benchmark book, twelve international scholars tackle the most vexed question in khipu studies: how did the Inkas record and transmit narrative records by means of knotted strings?

  • Copyright year: 2002
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The Development of the Inca State

By Brian S. Bauer; Introduction by Gary Urton
University of Texas Press

A new interpretation of Inca state development supported by archaeological, historical, and ethnographic evidence.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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