Colombia: a country with no history of its civilizations

by Adriaan Alsema June 14, 2021

Historians agree that explorer Christopher Columbus never “discovered” the Americas, but scientists have never found out when exactly Colombia was discovered and by who.

“The most antique artifacts from our country” are estimated to be 2,040 years old by archeologists from the Santander university who found the ceramics in the town of Guaca in December last year.

The ceramics and tools provided unique insight in the life of Colombia’s inhabitants around the turn of the century, but also highlighted the lack of knowledge of possibly more than 20,000 years of national history.

The Chiribiquete revolution
Less than five years before the Guaca find, the carbon dating of paint, charcoal and bones in the southern Chiribiquete national park proved that humans traveled deep into Colombia some 19,500 years ago.

Anthropologist Carlos Castaño, who has been investigating the Chiribiquete site since the 1990’s, has suggested that human may have been inhabiting this jungle region for a period in between 24,000 and 40,000 years.

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One could argue that more than 90% of Colombia’s history is unknown because virtually nobody investigated the evidence that wasn’t destroyed by the Spanish.

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PIctograms at Chiribiquete are between 500 and 19,500 years old, according to scientists.

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