New data about the burial patterns in northwest Antioquia (Colombia)

Abstract

Despite the intense activity of guaquería exercised in the first decades of last century in the northern part of Antioquia, Cauca River Canyon, the preventive archeology program, come under the Environmental Management Plan implemented in the construction of the Hydroelectric Ituango, identified several patterns of burial used by the human groups that inhabited the region at different times of prehispanic occupation. Primary burials sealed with stones and burial tombs cancel side were identified for the first centuries of the Dolmen type tombs Cristiana and that would probably be related to the period between the ninth and the fifteenth century AD C.