Ana María Groot de Mahecha (born 29 August 1952 in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city ...

) is a Colombian historian, archaeologist, anthropologist and associate professor at the Department of Anthropology of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Ana Mariá Groot speaks Spanish, English and French.Curriculum Vitae Ana María Groot

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 Universidad Nacional de Colombia 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, also known as the pre-contact era, or as the pre-Cabraline era specifically in Brazil, spans from the initial peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to the onset of European col ...

indigenous cultures such as Tierradentro, San Agustín, Nariño,

Tairona Tairona or Tayrona was a Pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia, 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 Department, Cesar, Magdalena Department, Mag ...

and the

Muisca The Muisca (also called the Chibcha) are indigenous peoples in Colombia and were a Pre-Columbian culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The Muisca spe ...

, predominantly about their use of

salt In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as r ...

from the mines of Nemocón and Zipaquirá.List of works by Ana María Groot
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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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