A 97,000-piece puzzle is what a group of archaeologists are working on, trying to put together an interesting story that reveals the past of primitive people who inhabited the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
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It is one of the archaeological finds most voluminous in recent years in the Colombian Caribbean.
Right in the middle of the excavations to install the energy towers, important vestiges of the past came to light in the middle of this project that passes through 17 municipalities of La Guajira, Cesar and Magdalena, includes the construction of 270 kilometers of lines and 632 towers, the expansion of the Fundación, Copey and Cuestecitas substations and the construction of Nueva Cuestecitas.
There, in the middle of these lands, pieces of communities that once walked through this valley began to sprout.
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The arrival of experts allowed 97,000 archaeological pieces to be discovered in 16 energy towers.
Among the finds are necklaces, beads, lumps of baked clay, bowls and complete funerary urns. In addition to ceramic fragments with different decorations.
“Also traces of traces of poles, that is, of housing structures. “Each discovery is a fascinating window into the communities that once inhabited these lands in northern Colombia,” says the bulletin Enconnection of the company ISA Intercolombia, in which the information was disseminated.
The largest number of pieces was found in the municipality of El Copey, in the heart of the Colombian Caribbean. Here 37,000 pieces have been reported.
The study of material culture allows us to know the past, learn from the societies that inhabited the territories where we live today and appropriate our history.
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“The study of material culture allows us to know the past, learn from the societies that inhabited the territories where we live today and appropriate our history,” says Ana Milena Londoño Vanegas, archaeologist with the Gaia corporation, ally in the archaeological management of the company.
“Each piece or fragment of ceramics, each lithic artifact, each bone remains, each seed and each of the elements that we recover are pieces of a puzzle that today allows us to reconstruct an important part of that past,” emphasizes Londoño.
El Copey (Cesar) is a municipality located in the heart of the Caribbean.
