Ana María Groot de Mahecha ( Bogotá, 29 August 1952) is a Colombian historian, archaeologist, anthropologist and associate professor at the Department of Anthropology of the

Universidad Nacional de Colombia The National University of Colombia () is a national public research university in Colombia, with general campuses in Bogotá, Medellín, Manizales and Palmira, and satellite campuses in Leticia, San Andrés, Arauca, Tumaco, and La Paz, ...

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Biography

Ana María Groot de Mahecha (other sources give second last name Sáenz) was born in Bogotá on 29 August 1952. She attended the ''Colegio Santa Francisca Romana'' and studied anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes, obtaining her MSc. title in 1974 with a thesis named ''Excavaciones Arqueológicas en Tierradentro. Estudio sobre cerámica y su posible uso en la elaboración de la sal'' ("Archaeological excavations in Tierradentro. Study about ceramics and its possible use in the elaboration of salt"). In 2008 Ana María Groot obtained her PhD degree in history of the

with a thesis named ''Trabajo y vida cotidiana en los pueblos productores de sal en el altiplano de Bogotá, siglos XVI-XVII'' ("Daily work and life of the salt producing peoples on the Bogotá plateau, 16th-17th centuries"). Groot has published on the archaeology and anthropology of

pre-Columbian In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492. Usually, ...

indigenous cultures such as

Tierradentro Tierra abajo (meaning "Underground" in Spanish for their well-known tombs) is one of the ancient Pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia. It started to flourish around 200 BC in the mountains of southwest Colombia, and continued into the 17th century. T ...

, San Agustín, Nariño,

Tairona Tairona (or Tayrona) was a Pre-Columbian culture of Colombia, which consisted in a group of chiefdoms in the region of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in present-day Cesar, Magdalena and La Guajira Departments of Colombia, South America, which g ...

and the

Muisca The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan langu ...

, predominantly about their use of

salt Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quant ...

from the mines of

Nemocón Nemocón is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Central Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. Nemocón, famous for its salt mine, was an important village in the Muisca Confederation, the country in the central Colo ...

and

Zipaquirá Zipaquirá () is a municipality and city of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. Its neighboring municipalities are Cogua and Nemocón to the north; Tocancipá to the east; Tabio, Cajicá and Sopó to the south; and Subachoque and ...

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Works

This list is a selection.

Books

* 2008 – ''Sal y poder en el altiplano de Bogotá, 1537-1640'' * 2006 – ''Arqueologia y patrimonio : conocimiento y apropiacion social'' * 1992 – ''Checua: Una secuencia cultural entre 8500 y 3000 años antes del presente'' * 1991 – ''Intento de delimitación del territorio de los grupos étnicos pastos y quillacingas en el altiplano nariñense'' * 1989 - ''Colombia prehispánica: regiones arqueológicas''; chapters I, VIII, IX

Articles

* 2014 - ''Apropiación social del patrimonio arqueológico del municipio de Nemocón, Cundinamarca: un camino entre la ciencia, la sociedad y la política'' * 2012 - ''Una historia de vida entre el pasado y el presente de Colombia: Homenaje a Alicia Dussán de Reichel-Dolmatoff'' * 2006 - ''Paisajes arqueológicos relacionados con el camino principal andino (Qhapaq Ñan)''Pinto Nolla, 2003 * 2000 - ''Dieta y bioantropología de los pobladores tempranos del valle medio del río Checua'' * 2000 - ''Sal, caminos y mercaderes: el caso de los muiscas en el siglo XVI'' * 2000 - ''Caminos Precolombinos: las vías, los ingenieros y los viajeros''Olivos Lombana, 2006 * 1999 - ''Las Salinas de Zipaquirá'' * 1990 - ''Excavaciones arqueológicas en el municipio de Nemocón'' * 1988 – ''Las Federaciones de aldeas: el caso de los muiscas y de los taironas'' * 1986 - ''Generalidades sobre el poblamiento prehispánico del Parque Nacional Natural Tairona'' * 1983 - ''Ciudad Perdida: Una población serrana de los taironas''

Lectures

* 2015 - ''La mita salinera en el Nuevo Reino de Granada y el rol de las mujeres: el caso de los muiscas en el altiplano de Bogotá''La mita salinera en el Nuevo Reino de Granada y el rol de las mujeres: el caso de los muiscas en el altiplano de Bogotá
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References

Notable works by Groot

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Bibliography

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