sabinehyland

An anthropologist at the University of St Andrews (Scotland), Sabine Hyland earned her PhD from Yale University, supervised by Richard Burger and Mike Coe. For over a decade, she has collaborated with elders in remote Andean villages to discover how native Peruvians communicated through 3D coloured cords known as "khipus". Her research has uncovered isolated communities where khipus -- once thought to have been wiped out during the European invasion in the 1500s -- were used within living memory. The NEH, the NSF, the National Geographic Society and the Leverhulme Trust have supported her research. In 2015 the National Geographic Society selected her as a "National Geographic Explorer" in recognition of her scholarly contributions; in 2018 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.