Marianne Vere Cardale de Schrimpff is a Colombian anthropologist, archaeologist,

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and writer.

Biography

Marianne Cardale obtained her master's degree at the

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in 1965 and her PhD in 1972 at the

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with a thesis named ''Techniques of Hand-weavíng and allied arts in Colombia''.Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff
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From 1970 to 1974 she worked at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá.Curriculum Vitae Marianne Vere Cardale de Schrimpff
/ref> Cardale de Schrimpff has been active in the establishment of the Calima Gold Museum in Cali, in the region of the Calima. She also co-founded the ''Pro Calima'' group on the Calima culture. Part of her work was on the

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culture, about pre-Columbian roads, and other aspects of the Calima culture. Schrimpff has written about the Herrera Period, the Muisca people and their

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in the

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of the Colombian

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and about textiles in different parts of the country. Cardale de Schrimpff has worked with other

Muisca scholars The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous peoples of Colombia, indigenous people and Pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia, culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conq ...

and archaeologists in Colombia, including Sylvia Broadbent, Gonzalo Correal Urrego, Ana María Groot, and Leonor Herrera. Cardale de Schrimpff speaks English, Spanish, French and German. Her

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is Cardale, and "de Schrimpff" refers to her husband, aerial photographer Rudolf Schrimpff. He died on March 30, 2005 in an aviation accident.Biography and death Rudolf Hermann Schrimpff Mampe

Works

Cardale de Schrimpff has published many books and articles about the Calima,

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 ...

, Panche, and other indigenous groups of Colombia, in Spanish and English.List of works by Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff
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Selected books

* 2015 - ''Archaeology of Salt'', chapter ''Pre-Columbian Salt Production in Colombia - searching for the evidence''Pre-Columbian Salt Production in Colombia - searching for the evidence
/ref> * 2000 - ''Caminos precolombinos: las vías, los ingenieros y los viajeros'' (with Leonor Herrera)
/ref> * 1996 - ''Caminos prehispánicos en Calima: El estudio de caminos precolombinos de la cuenca del alto río Calima, Cordillera Occidental, Valle del Cauca''Caminos prehispánicos en Calima: El estudio de caminos precolombinos de la cuenca del alto río Calima, Cordillera Occidental, Valle del Cauca
/ref> * 1992 - ''Calima : diez mil años de historia en el suroccidente de Colombia'' * 1981 - ''Las salinas de Zipaquirá: su explotación indígena''

Selected articles

* 2013 - ''Human Occupation and the Environment during the Holocene in the River Cauca Valley, Colombia. The Evidence from Paleobotany and from Soil Studies'' (with Neil Duncan, Ana María Groot, Pedro Botero, Alejandra Betancourt & Juan Carlos BerrioHuman Occupation and the Environment during the Holocene in the River Cauca Valley, Colombia. The Evidence from Paleobotany and from Soil Studies
/ref> * 2006 - ''Cazando animales en el bestiario cosmológico: el cocodrilo en el suroeste de Colombia y en regiones vecinas del Ecuador (800 A.C. a 500 D.C.)''Cazando animales en el bestiario cosmológico: el cocodrilo en el suroeste de Colombia y en regiones vecinas del Ecuador (800 A.C. a 500 D.C.)
/ref> * 2006 - ''Estudio de los restos humanos y de fauna del sitio arqueológico Hacienda Malagana'' (with Gonzalo Correal Urrego, Leonor Herrera & Carlos Armando Rodríguez) * 1990 - ''La agricultura y el manejo de la tierra en tiempos prehispánicos'' * 1989 - ''Ornamentos y máscaras de oro dela cultura Ilama, metalurgia del periodo formativo tardio en la cordillera occidental colombiana'' (with Warwick Bray, Leonor Herrera & Adriana Arias De Hassan)Ornamentos y máscaras de oro dela cultura Ilama, metalurgia del periodo formativo tardio en la cordillera occidental colombiana
/ref> * 1988 - ''Textiles arqueológicos del bajo rio San Jorge''Textiles arqueológicos del bajo rio San Jorge
/ref> * 1981 - ''Ocupaciones humanas en el Altiplano Cundiboyacense''Ocupaciones humanas en el Altiplano Cundiboyacense
/ref> * 1976 - ''Investigaciones arqueológicas en la zona de Pubenza, Tocaima, Cundinamarca''Investigaciones arqueológicas en la zona de Pubenza, Tocaima, Cundinamarca
/ref> * 1974 - ''Mitología Cuna: Los Kalu según Don Alfonso Díaz Granadas'' (with Leonor Herrera)Mitología Cuna: Los Kalu según Don Alfonso Díaz Granadas
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Notable works

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