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Gonzalo Correal Urrego
Born (1939-10-23) 23 October 1939 (age 84)
Gachalá, Cundinamarca,
 Colombia
NationalityColombian
Alma materInstituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 1964
Free University of Colombia, 1966
Known forArchaeology, anthropology of indigenous Colombian peoples, palaeontology
AwardsEmeritus Professor at National University of Colombia, 1983
Honorary Professor, 1995
Scientific career
FieldsHistory, archaeology, anthropology
InstitutionsUniversidad Nacional de Colombia
ThesisLa Leyenda del Dorado Laguna de Guatavita (1966)
The site of El Abra, dated at 12,400 years BP, one of the oldest human evidences in South America

Gonzalo Correal Urrego (Gachalá, Colombia, 23 October 1939) is a Colombian anthropologist, palaeontologist and archaeologist.[1] He has been contributing to the knowledge of prehistoric Colombia for over forty years and has published in Spanish and English.[2] Correal Urrego is considered one of the most important anthropologists of Colombia.[3] He has collaborated with many other anthropologists and archaeologists, among others Thomas van der Hammen and Ana María Groot.[4]

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 and law and political sciences simultaneously at the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia and Universidad Libre respectively. In 1964 he obtained his degree in anthropology and in 1966 his PhD in law and political sciences.[1]

As of 1966 he was a professor at the Universidad de Antioquia and between 1968 and 1971 at the Department of Anthropology of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. From 1975 to 1995 Correal Urrego was professor in anthropology and archaeology at the Universidad Nacional.[1]

Correal Urrego has investigated the preceramic period in Colombia (El Abra, Tequendama, Aguazuque, Tibitó, among others)[5] and contributed to the knowledge of the Herrera Period, Muisca, Panches, Quimbaya and more.[1][6] He also analysed the Pleistocene megafauna that still existed at the time of the first human populations in South America. Among those the mastodont of Zarzal.[7]

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.[1]

In 2007 Correal Urrego received recognition for his forty-year career at the Universidad Nacional with the Vida y Obra award.[8] 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.[9][10]

Works

This list is a selection.[1][2]

Books

Articles

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f (in Spanish) Curriculum Vitae Gonzalo Correal Urrego Archived 11 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b List of publications by Gonzalo Correal Urrego - WorldCat
  3. ^ (in Spanish) Gonzalo Correal Urrego, one of the most important anthropologists of Colombia - El Tiempo
  4. ^ (in Spanish) Hommage to Thomas van der Hammen, by Gonzalo Correal Urrego
  5. ^ Correal Urrego, 1990
  6. ^ Correal Urrego, 2002
  7. ^ (in Spanish) Analysis of mastodont molars from Zarzal
  8. ^ (in Spanish) Tres premios al Mérito Científico para la Nacional
  9. ^ (in Spanish) Gonzalo Correal Urrego receives Medalla de Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
  10. ^ (in Spanish) Honouring Gonzalo Correal Urrego at the ICANH

Notable works by Correal Urrego

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