V. Garth Norman

V. Garth Norman - Archaeologist/Epigrapher/Archaeo-astronomer www.vgarthnorman.com.

V. Garth Norman is the leading authority on iconographic research of the early Izapan-Mayan culture. He worked with the New World Archaeological Foundation at the ruins of Izapa from 1965 to 1980 and has published books and papers on that culture. He began his professional archaeology career in 1965 as a research associate with the BYU-New World Archaeological Foundation’s Izapa, Mexico, project, completing the major work with publications Izapa Sculpture Album (1973) and Izapa Sculpture Text (1976) which includes the Stela 5 "Tree of Life" stone. In addition, he completed an astronomical orientations mapping study of Izapa sculptures in 1980: Astronomical Orientations of Izapa Sculpture (BYU). The “horizon-based astronomy” at Izapa has orientations to Mt. Tajumulco and Tacana. Norman has primarily researched antiquities in Mesoamerica, North America, and Peru, South America over the past 50 years.

In 2007, he published his contract research on the natural temple center at the Parowan Gap in the Western US: Parowan Gap-Nature’s Perfect Observatory (2007-CFI), in southwestern Utah where he has discovered an observatory and calendar link to Mesoamerica, and published Izapa Self-Guided Tour (2010-Arcon, Inc.). Most recently (2012) he published his ongoing research on ancient Mesoamerican calendars that have their foundation in the Izapa Temple Center in his book titled: Izapa Sacred Space: Sculpture Calendar Codex (translated into Spanish: Izapa Espacio Sagrado, El codice Calendarico, 2016). In September 2011, Garth was the keynote speaker in the State of Chiapas lectures on Izapa titled “Chiapas, Corazon de Mesoamerica” held in Tapachula, Mexico. In August 2012, Garth presented his most significant research to date in a lecture at the world famous Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City. He shared Izapa’s Calendars based on 15º north latitude where the sacred Maya 260-day calendar originated (1500 BC/500 BC), and that he found the 15º south latitude at Nazca, Peru has the same Izapa 260-day Calendar (100 BC).

In 2018, Norman published the CUBIT CONNECTION in Ancient World Migrations which focuses on how antiquities were constructed in Middle America, North and South America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands using Middle Eastern cubits .

Garth Norman is President of Archaeological Research Consultants (ARCON, Inc.) and Ancient America Foundation (AAF). Norman has Graduate Degrees in Ancient Studies and Archaeology-Anthropology from Brigham Young University. He is affiliated with many research organizations and has participated internationally with numerous professional symposiums, most frequently with the Society for American Archaeology (SAA).. He has traveled worldwide and lectured in the Canada, USA, Central America, South America, Europe, Israel, and Asia. Garth and his wife Cheryl reside in American Fork, Utah, and have three married daughters and 16 grandchildren (4 married) and 3 great-grandchildren. Norman’s info is on websites: www.vgarthnorman.com; http://izapacalendar.com; www.izapa.co (Spanish). Books sold on: www.amazon.com.