# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-taube
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:22:53.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-taube"
name: "Karl Taube"
slug: "karl-taube"
description: "Karl Andreas Taube is an American Mesoamericanist, Mayanist, iconographer and ethnohistorian, known for his publications and research into the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. He is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of California, Riverside. In 2008 he was named the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences distinguished lecturer."
tagline: "American Mesoamericanist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Taube%2C_American_anthropologist_and_archeologist.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-09-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.12
  momentum:             6.250000000000002
  historical:           8.281462666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "卡爾·陶布"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل تاوب (مؤرخ من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Andreas_Taube"
    title: "Karl Andreas Taube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Taube"
    title: "Karl Taube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Taube"
    title: "Karl Taube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Taube"
    title: "Karl Taube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A6%E3%83%99"
    title: "カール・タウベ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Taube"
    title: "Karl Taube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B1%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Тауб, Карл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2891568"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump