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Langebaek was vice-chancellor for academic affairs at Universidad de los Andes and speaks

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and English.

Biography

Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda was born in the Colombian capital Bogotá as son of a Danish father, also an anthropologist, and Colombian mother. He attended the ''Gimnasio Moderno'' in the city. Langebaek did his undergraduate studies in anthropology at the Universidad de Los Andes from 1980 to 1985 and his Master's from 1988 to 1993 at the

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, graduating with a thesis called ''Regional Archaeology in the Muisca Territory. The case of Fúquene and Susa''. During the same years Langebaek performed his doctoral publishing his PhD thesis in 1993 under the title ''Patterns of Coca consumptions in Northern South America''. The anthropologist has spent eight years in the archives looking for information on the

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he assessed in his work. Since 1992 Langebaek is associate professor at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá and from 2000 to 2011 he was the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the university. Langebaek has worked in National Park Tayrona, Fúquene Valley, Barichara, Bahía de Neguaje and north

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agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

and the hunter-gatherer society are not mutually exclusive and while the access to agriculture is there, the society can continue living off hunter-gathering techniques. The

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and

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are not originally from Colombia, yet from Peru and Mexico respectively and were cultivated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense during the Herrera Period, around 3000 Before Present, BP (1000 BCE). In 2009 the ''Premio Alejandro Ángel Escobar en Ciencias Sociales y Humanas'' was awarded to Langebaek for his book ''Los herederos del pasado. Indígenas y pensamiento criollo en Colombia y Venezuela''.

Works

This list is a selection.

Books

* 2021 - Antes de Colombia *2019 - "Los muiscas. La historia milenaria de un pueblo chibcha" * 2009 - ''Los herederos del pasado : indígenas y pensamiento criollo en Colombia y Venezuela'' * 2007 - ''Indios y españoles en la antigua provincia de Santa Marta, Colombia: documentos de los siglos XVI y XVII'' * 2006 - ''El diablo vestido de negro y los cunas del Darién en el siglo XVIII: Jacobo Walburger y su Breve noticia de la provincia del Darién, de la ley y costumbres de los yndios, de la poca esperanza de plantar nuestra fé, y del número de sus naturales, 1748'' * 2002 - ''Arqueología y guerra en el Valle de Aburrá: estudio de cambios sociales en una región del noroccidente del Colombia'' * 2000 - ''Arqueología en el Bajo Magdalena: un estudio de los primeros agricultores del Caribe colombiano'' * 1998 - ''Medio ambiente y poblamiento en La Guajira : investigaciones arqueológicas en el ranchería medio'' * 1996 - ''Noticias de caciques muy mayores: orígen y desarrollo de sociedades complejas en el nororiente de Colombia y norte de Venezuela'' * 1995 - ''Regional archaeology in the Muisca territory: a study of the Fúquene and Susa valleys'' * 1992 - ''Noticias de caciques mayores: Origen y desarrollo de sociedades complejas en el nororiente de Colombia y el norte de Venezuela'' * 1987 - ''Mercados, poblamiento e integración étnica entre los muiscas, siglo XVI'' * 1985 - ''Cuando los muiscas diversificaron la agricultura y crearon el intercambio''

Articles

* 2005 - ''The Pre-Hispanic Population of the Santa Marta Bays. A Contribution to the Study of the Development of the Northern Colombian Tairona Chiefdom''Carl Henrik Langebaek at University of Pittsburgh
/ref> * 2001 - ''Arqueología regional en el Valle de Leiva: procesos de ocupación humana en una región de los Andes orientales de Colombia''Chronology of pre-Columbian periods: Herrera and Muisca
/ref> * 2000 - ''Cacicazgos, orfebrería y política prehispánica: una perspectiva desde Colombia'' * 1996 - ''Arqueología de nosotros mismos. Deterioro ambiental en la laguna de Fúquene'' * 1996 - ''De cómo convertir a los indios y de porqué no lo han sido: Juan de Valcarcel y la idolatría en el altiplano cundiboyacense a finales del siglo XVII'' * 1994 - ''La élite no siempre piensa lo mismo. Indígenas, estado, arqueología y etnohistoria en Colombia'' * 1992 - ''Cuna Chiefs long distance travels: the result of the Conquest'' * 1992 - ''El uso de adornos de metal y la existencia de sociedades complejas: una visión desde Centro de Suramérica'' * 1992 - ''Competencia por el prestigio político y momificación en el norte de Suramérica y el Istmo, siglo XVI'' * 1990 - ''Patologías y la hipótesis de la economía autosuficiente muisca'' * 1990 - ''Buscando Sacerdotes y encontrando chuques: sobre la organización religiosa de los cacicazgos muiscas''

References

Notable works by Langebaek Rueda

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Langebaek Rueda, Carl Henrik 1961 births Colombian anthropologists Colombian archaeologists 20th-century Colombian historians Muisca scholars University of Pittsburgh alumni University of Los Andes (Colombia) faculty Living people 21st-century Colombian historians