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Lifeworlds, Biota and Mineral Resources in the Checua River Valley, Colombia (9500 cal BP–1500 AD)

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This chapter discusses the processes of creation and transformation of landscapes, following Ingold’s dwelling perspective and his concept of lifeworld, as well as an integrated approach based on contemporary anthropological and archaeological theory. Research focuses on past human interactions with biota (plant and animals) and mineral resources (salt and clays) in the Checua river valley, located at the municipality of Nemocón in Colombia. We discuss how hunter-gatherers (ca. 9500–5000 BP), farmers and salt producers (ca. 2000 BP–1950 AD) have interacted with the environment for over nine millennia, creating landscapes as lifeworlds as they are re-signified and dwelled. To accomplish this purpose and to problematize the social relations of human individuals and groups with other actants in the landscape, we discuss the results of a systematic regional survey and data recorded during the excavation of two archaeological sites in the valley.

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    All radiocabon dates were performed by Beta Analytic laboratory according to their established protocol and were calibrated by using INTCAL 13 calibration curve.

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This work was possible thanks to the financial support of the Social Sciences Faculty (University of Los Andes), the Fundación de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Nacionales, the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia and also to the financial and logistic aid of Luis Fernando Lloreda (company Flores El Futuro), who supported us during the fieldwork and allowed us to work in his land, where the archaeological site of Checua is located. We thanks to Renzo Sánchez the Major of Nemocón and to Jorge Alberto Salgado the Director of the Museum “Historia Natural de la Sabana” who help us with the logistic to carry out the survey and excavation at La Salina site. Many professionals participated during the process of this project. Mayra Cuéllar carried out the analysis of archaeological materials collected during the regional survey. Francisco Romano, co-author of the proposal for the archaeological regional survey, trained students in the field to carry out this survey. Julián Gallego and Jean Baptiste Tary (Geosciences, Uniandes) coordinated geophysical surveys developed at Checua and La Salina sites. Saúl Torres made the analysis of GIS to produce maps of the spatial distribution of archaeological materials. Archaeologist María Antonieta Corcioni carry out the bioanthropological analysis of human remains from the site of Checua and archaeologist Luisa Mendoza developed the paleopathological dental study of these human remains. Geologist Susana Salazar (Geosciences School, National University Nacional) made the study of the stratigraphic profile at the excavation carried out at La Salina site. Natalia Pardo (Geosciences) and Catalina Gonzalez (Biological Sciences) from Uniandes coordinated geological, stratigraphy and paleoecology analyses at the site of Checua in which geologist Diana Montoya (National Geological Service, Colombia), geoscientists Aura Cuervo, José Avellaneda, Daniel Góngora, Valentina Carmona, biologists Melissa Martínez and Andrés Zúñiga participated. A group of undergraduate students from Uniandes (Anthropology and Geosciences) and National University (Anthropology), participated in the field seasons and at the laboratory. Posgraduate students Juan Pablo Ospina, Saúl Torres, Martha Mejía and Juan David Gonzalez (Uniandes), developed their dissertations within the project. We thank all of them for their great generosity, time, work and for their interest in this project.

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Archila, S., Ospina, J.P., Torres, S., Espinosa, M., Groot, A.M. (2021). Lifeworlds, Biota and Mineral Resources in the Checua River Valley, Colombia (9500 cal BP–1500 AD). In: Bonomo, M., Archila, S. (eds) South American Contributions to World Archaeology. One World Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73998-0_2

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