Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda (

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 ...

, 1961) is a Colombian

anthropologist An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ...

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

and historian.Curriculum Vitae Carl Henrik Langebaek
/ref> He has been contributing on the knowledge of archaeological evidences, especially the

Herrera Period The Herrera Period is a phase in the history of Colombia. It is part of the Andean preceramic and ceramic, time equivalent of the North American pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian Formative stage, formative and classic stages and age dated by var ...

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 ...

.Publications Carl Henrik Langebaek
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Langebaek was vice-chancellor for academic affairs at Universidad de los Andes.

Biography

Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda was born in the Colombian capital

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

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...

, 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

indigenous peoples There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territ ...

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 Rueda is rector of the university of entrepreneurs, '
Uniempresarial
''. Leading institution in the dual model in Colombia, therefore he becomes an honorary ambassador of the Dual Model in the country due to its transformative impact on training and employability. Langebaek has worked in National Park Tayrona,

Fúquene Fúquene is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. The municipality borders Ubaté, Susa, Guachetá and the department of Boyacá. Fúquene is located 116 km northwest from the capital Bogotá.

Valley,

Barichara Barichara is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. In 2010, in recognition of its history, architecture, and touristic potential, Barichara was declared a Colombian '' Pueblo Patrimonio'' (heritage town). ...

, Bahía de Neguaje and north

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and his heroes are

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and

Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (, ; ; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and old quantum theory, quantum theory, for which he received the No ...

. Carl Henrik Langebaek has stated that

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

and the

hunter-gatherer A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived Lifestyle, lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, esp ...

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

potato The potato () is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'', a perennial in the nightshade famil ...

and

maize Maize (; ''Zea mays''), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native American ...

are not originally from Colombia, yet from Peru and Mexico respectively and were cultivated on the

Altiplano Cundiboyacense The Altiplano Cundiboyacense () is a high plateau located in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes covering parts of the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá. (Do not confuse with The Altiplano or the Altiplano Nariñense, both fur ...

during the

, around 3000 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''. Bogotá * 2009 - ''Los herederos del pasado : indígenas y pensamiento criollo en Colombia y Venezuela''. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes: Ediciones Uniandes * 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'' * 2000 - ''Arqueología regional en el valle de Veiva: Procesos de ocupación humana en una región de los Andes orientales de Colombia''. Bogotá: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia. * 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''. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh; Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes. * 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''. Bogotá: Banco de la República. * 1985 - ''Cuando los muiscas diversificaron la agricultura y crearon el intercambio''

Articles

* 2011. (with co-authors) "Condiciones de vida y jerarquías sociales en el norte de Suraméerica : el caso de la población muisca en Tibanica, Soacha". ''Indiana'' no. 28 (2011) 15-34 * 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". ''Revista de Antropología y Arqueología'' 6, no. 1.

References

Notable works by Langebaek Rueda

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