Jorge Gamboa Mendoza

drs.
Jorge Gamboa Mendoza
Born (1970-01-27) January 27, 1970
Pamplona, Norte de Santander,
 Colombia
Residence Bogotá
Nationality Colombian
Fields History, anthropology
Institutions Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH)
Alma mater Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Thesis El Significado de la dote dentro de las prácticas matrimoniales de la sociedad colonial: El caso de la Provincia de Pamplona de la Nueva Granada a finales del siglo XVI (2002)
Known for Anthropology, Colombian history
The site of El Abra, dated at 12,400 years BP, one of the oldest human evidences in South America

Jorge Augusto Gamboa Mendoza (Pamplona, 27 January 1970) is a Colombian anthropologist and historian.[1] He has been contributing on the knowledge of colonial and pre-colonial Colombia, especially the Muisca.[2] Jorge Gamboa speaks Spanish and French.[1]

Biography

Jorge Gamboa Mendoza was born in the town of Pamplona in the northern department of Norte de Santander. He studied anthropology as an undergraduate at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá from 1988 to 1993 and history from 1993 to 2002 at the same university, graduating with a thesis called El Significado de la dote dentro de las prácticas matrimoniales de la sociedad colonial: El caso de la Provincia de Pamplona de la Nueva Granada a finales del siglo XVI ("The significance of the dowry within the matrimonal practices of the colonial society: The case of the Pamplona Province of the New Kingdom of Granada at the end of the 16th century").[1]

Since 2001 Jorge Gamboa Mendoza is a researcher at the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH) in Bogotá.[1]

Works

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

Books

Articles

See also

List of Muisca scholars
Spanish conquest of the Muisca
Muisca

Notable works by Gamboa Mendoza

References

External links

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