Author: Mario Sanoja Vargas
PhD. in Anthropology from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (1966), and a degree in Ethnology from the Sorbonne University, Paris (1961). Scientific collaborator of the Smithsonian Institution (1967), he has been a postgraduate professor in several universities in Venezuela.
Articles by Mario Sanoja Vargas:

In. N.W. Venezuela, the original populations that settled the actual territory of the State of Lara, played a crucial rol in the early regional formative cultural development, as the center of an extended network thata embraced most of western Venezuela, including the middle part of the Orinoco Basin.