Oliver, José R;
(2022)
Megaliths of the Colombian Andes:
Boyacá, Sierra Nevada del Cocuy and San Agustín.
In: Laporte, Luc and Large, Jean-Marc and Nespoulous, Laurent and Scarre, Chris and Steimer-Herbet, Tara, (eds.)
Megaliths of the World.
(pp. 159-191).
Archaeopress Publishing: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
The Andean highlands of Colombia present a rich and varied corpus of megalithic works ranging from tall standing menhirs, richly carved monumental columnar statues and dolmen-like funerary structures to massive stone sarcophagi and monolithic alignments delimiting ceremonial spaces. Megaliths seem to have first emerged during the Late Formative Period (ca. 400 BC) and are still in use among the present-day U’wa of the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy. This chapter aims to provide a synthesis of the current state of knowledge on megalithic manifestations found in the Department of Boyacá in the Northern Andes and in San Agustín Massif region of the Upper Magdalena River Basin of Colombia.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Megaliths of the Colombian Andes: Boyacá, Sierra Nevada del Cocuy and San Agustín |
| ISBN-13: | 9781803273204 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.32028/9781803273204 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.32028/9781803273204 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Megaliths, San Agustín, Boyacá, dolmens, standing stones, Colombia |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177934 |
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