Years 2020-2024

Of spiders and spider webs, territory and cosmos, harmonies and symmetries of creation

2017-12-18 Emilia Raggi Lucio

Cultural Variables for the Study of Social Inequalities in the Late Herrera Society of the Cundiboyacense Altiplano, Colombia (Part Two)

2017-12-18 Carlos Armando Rodríguez

Obituary by Richard G. Cooke (1946-2023) In Memoriam

2017-12-15 Andrei V. Tabarev

Obituary by Alberta Zucchi Motta (1938-2023) In Memoriam

2017-12-15 Clemencia Plazas

Alberta Zucchi Motta passed away on February 22, 2023 in the city of Caracas. Dr. Zucchi Zucchi was born on February 14, 1938 in Milan, Italy.

Geoarchaeological studies in the area of influence of the volcanoes of the northern volcanic segment of Colombia

2017-12-15 Carlos Eduardo López

Geoarchaeology as a hybrid subdiscipline originating in the fields of Earth Sciences and Social Sciences has increased its interest globally and especially in the last two decades in Latin America.

Cultural Variables for the Study of Social Inequalities in the Late Herrera Society of the Cundiboyacense Altiplano, Colombia. (Part One)

2017-12-15 Carlos Armando Rodríguez

This article focuses on the interdisciplinary analysis of four cultural variables, which allow us to infer an intermediate range of social inequalities in the Late Herrera culture of the Cundiboyacense Altiplano: a) settlement patterns and architectural structures, b) intensification of primary food production (agriculture and hunting)...

Powerful hands. A participatory methodology for the study of hand representations in the rock art of in the rock art of Laguna Mensabak, Chiapas

2017-12-15 Eduardo Forero Lloreda

In this work, we present the results of our study of hand prints in rock art at Lake Mensabak, located in the state of Chiapas in southeastern Mexico.

Materializing elements of identity: iconographic analysis of headdresses from the Bahia culture, Ecuador

2017-12-15 Eduardo Forero Lloreda

Studies of ceramics associated with the Bahía culture, which pertains to the Regional Development period and was centered in the present-day province of Manabí on the coast of Ecuador, have mainly focused on establishing typologies and organizing them chronologically.

About a prehispanic cranial trepanation in the eastern foothills of the central mountain range of Colombia, Planadas - Tolima

2017-12-15 Carlos Eduardo López

The finding of a trepanning skull in Planadas, Tolima, a rare find in Colombian archaeology, motivates these reflections; a description of the finding and its context is made and similar practices in Colombia, the American continent, especially Peru, Bolivia, Mesoamerica, Europe, Asia and Oceania are studied and related.

On the age of stoves in Las Travesías, San Luis, Argentina

2017-12-15 Iraida Vargas-Arenas

Systematic archeological research on the central and western Travesías region in Argentina are in permanent development. Although earth ovens or botijos are continuously identified in the archeological record in these territories, specific studies on these elements are still scarce.

Funerary practices and living conditions among the prehispanic societies of Valle del Cauca, Colombia

2017-12-15 José Vicente Rodríguez Cuenca

The departamento of the Valle del Cauca covers a wide range of landscapes from the Pacific coast and the Western and Central mountain ranges, to the structural hills and the flood plain of the river Cauca.

Tombs of cancellation and commemoration of environmental and astronomical milestones in the Middle Cauca, Colombia: The case of Santa Rosa de Cabal.

2017-12-15 E. L. Rodríguez

During the execution of the preventive archeology program of the intervention authorization “N° 3740” of the ICANH (Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History), granted for the electrical Subestación interconnection project 'UPME 02-2009 Armenia 230kV' and the associated interconnection line, executed by Empresa de Energía de Bogotá S.A. ESP., (Today Grupo de Energía Bogotá S.A.