Gonzalo Correal Urrego ( Gachalá, Colombia, 23 October 1939) is a Colombian anthropologist,

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and archaeologist.Curriculum Vitae Gonzalo Correal Urrego
He has been contributing to the knowledge of prehistoric Colombia for over forty years and has published in

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and English.List of publications by Gonzalo Correal Urrego
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Correal Urrego is considered one of the most important anthropologists of Colombia. He has collaborated with many other anthropologists and archaeologists, among others Thomas van der Hammen and Ana María Groot.

Biography

Gonzalo Correal Urrego was born in the village of Gachalá, in the eastern part of the Colombian department of Cundinamarca. Already as a child he did his first archaeological excavations in the ''Cuevas de los Alpes'' in his home village. He attended the ''Colegio de San Bartolomé La Merced'', graduating in 1958. Correal went on to study

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

and law and political sciences simultaneously at the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia and

Universidad Libre Free University of Colombia ( es, Universidad Libre), also called Unilibre, is a nonsectarian, coeducational, private and nonprofit university based in Bogota, Colombia, with six satellite campuses located in Cali, Barranquilla, Pereira, ...

respectively. In 1964 he obtained his degree in anthropology and in 1966 his PhD in law and political sciences. As of 1966 he was a professor at the

Universidad de Antioquia The University of Antioquia ( es, Universidad de Antioquia), also called UdeA, is a public, departmental, coeducational, research university located primarily in the city of Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, with regional campuses in Amalfi, An ...

and between 1968 and 1971 at the Department of Anthropology of the

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in Bogotá. From 1975 to 1995 Correal Urrego was professor in anthropology and archaeology at the Universidad Nacional. Correal Urrego has investigated the preceramic period in Colombia (

El Abra El Abra is the name given to an extensive archeological site, located in the valley of the same name. El Abra is situated in the east of the municipality Zipaquirá extending to the westernmost part of Tocancipá in the department of Cundinamar ...

Tequendama Tequendama is a preceramic and ceramic archaeological site located southeast of Soacha, Cundinamarca, Colombia, a couple of kilometers east of Tequendama Falls. It consists of multiple evidences of late Pleistocene to middle Holocene populat ...

Aguazuque Aguazuque is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located in the western part of the municipality Soacha, close to the municipalities Mosquera and San Antonio del Tequendama in Cundinamarca, Colombia. It exists of evidences of human settlement o ...

Tibitó Tibitó is the second-oldest dated archaeological site on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia.Herrera Period,

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 ...

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, Quimbaya and more. He also analysed the

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megafauna that still existed at the time of the first human populations in South America. Among those the mastodont of

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. Correal Urrego has been awarded various awards for his contributions in the fields of archaeology and anthropology, among others ''Primer Premio Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología'' in 1975, ''Profesor Emérito, Universidad Nacional de Colombia'' in 1983, ''Maestro Universitario, Universidad Nacional de Colombia'' in 1994, ''Profesor Honorario, Universidad Nacional de Colombia'' in 1995. In 2007 Correal Urrego received recognition for his forty-year career at the Universidad Nacional with the ''Vida y Obra'' award. In 2015 the Universidad del Magdalena of Santa Marta awarded Correal the ''Medalla de Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta'' and in the same year the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia honoured Correal Urrego for his work.Honouring Gonzalo Correal Urrego at the ICANH
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Works

This list is a selection.

Books

* 2012 - ''Introducción a la paleopatología precolombina'' * 1990 - ''Aguazuque: evidencias de cazadores, recolectores y plantadores en la altiplanicie de la Cordillera Oriental'' * 1983 - ''Investigación arqueológica en el municipio de Zipacón, Cundinamarca'' * 1981 - ''Evidencias culturales y megafauna pleistocénica en Colombia'' * 1979 - ''Investigaciones arqueológicas en abrigos rocosos de Nemocón y Sueva'' * 1977 - ''Exploraciones arqueológicas en la costa Atlantica y valle del Magdalena: sitios preceramicos y tipologias liticas'' * 1977 - ''Investigaciones arqueológicas en los abrigos rocosos del Tequendama: 12.000 Años de historia del hombre y su medio ambiente en la altiplanicie de Bogotá''

Articles

* 2007 - ''Zipaquirá 400 años. Aspectos Arqueológicos y Etnohistóricos'' * 2007 - ''Human Skeletal Remains from Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia. A case of Paleoamerican Morphology late Survival in South América'' -

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* 1994 - ''Evidence of mitochondrial DNA. Diversity in South American aboriginals'' * 1992 - ''The Sedimentary Infill of the Sabana de Bogotá Basin and its Palaeoc1imatological Implications'' * 1988 - ''Controlling the Water table During Resume Excavations an Example from Tibitó 1. A Preceramic kill site'' * 1987 - ''Paleopathology in Preceramic Bones from Colombia: Examples of Syphilitic lesions from the Site of Aguazuque, Soacha'' * 1978 - ''Pre-historical man on the Sabana de Bogotá. Data for and Ecological Prehistoric'' * 1973 - ''Evidencias de Cirugía Craneana Prehistórica en Colombia'' * 1972 - ''Preceramic Sequences in El Abra Rock Shelters, Colombia'' -

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* 1971 - ''Hacia los orígenes y la antigüedad del hombre en Colombia: Comprobada científicamente su existencia hace más de 12.400 años'' * 1966 - ''La Leyenda del Dorado Laguna de Guatavita''

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