The use of geophysical methods in the prospection of a prehispanic Late Quimbaya I settlement in Ginebra (Valle del Cauca, Colombia).

Authors

  • Carlos Armando Rodríguez University of the Valley
  • Orlando Zúñiga Escobar University of the Valley
  • Ramiro Cuero Guependo University of the Valley

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.boan.6709

Keywords:

Complex thought, Transdisciplinarity, Archaeology, Pre-Hispanic history, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Abstract

Abstract. In this article presents the results of the pre-Hispanic archaeological exploration of the ancient village of Campoalegre of cultural affiliation Quimbaya Late I (500-1300 AD), held in Ginebra, Valle del Cauca, in 2006. It documents the use of a non-intrusive transdisciplinary strategy that included the use of remote sensing techniques (aerial photo), as geoelectric radioactivity and gamma (applied for the first time in archaeological exploration in Colombia). Alike, were used pedological, archaeological and topographical traditional methods as: visual observation of the landscape, the space division in grids in selected sectors to intensify studies, lifting and characterization of pedology and stratigraphic profiles, surveying and Geographic location of antiquities platforms, and digging test holds and trenches using arbitrary levels.
Based on field surveys and subsequent studies of cultural materials in the laboratory, we suggest that in the middle course of the Guabas river, there was a prehistoric village, which was originally composed at least by some 23 platforms scattered on the topography of the sector between 1970 and 2060 meters above sea level. Its dimensions, probably associated with the role, ranged between 41 and 337 m2.
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Author Biographies

Carlos Armando Rodríguez, University of the Valley

Julio César Cubillos Archaeological Museum, Arqueodiversidad research group
Universidad del Valle
E-mail address: carodrig@univalle.edu.co

Orlando Zúñiga Escobar, University of the Valley

YLAMA Research Group
Universidad del Valle
E-mail address: agrophysik49@gmail.com

Ramiro Cuero Guependo, University of the Valley

YLAMA Research Group
Universidad del Valle
E-mail address: racuerog@gmail.com

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2010-09-06

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Armando Rodríguez, C., Zúñiga Escobar, O., & Cuero Guependo, R. (2010). The use of geophysical methods in the prospection of a prehispanic Late Quimbaya I settlement in Ginebra (Valle del Cauca, Colombia). Boletín De Antropología, 22(39), 295–313. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.boan.6709

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Vol. 22 No. 39 (2008)

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Arqueología y Medio Ambiente

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