Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff

Marianne Vere Cardale de Schrimpff is a Colombian anthropologist, archaeologist, academic and writer.

Biography

Marianne Cardale obtained her master's degree at the University of Edinburgh in 1965 and her PhD in 1972 at the University of Oxford with a thesis named Techniques of Hand-weavíng and allied arts in Colombia.^[1][2] From 1970 to 1974 she worked at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá.^[2]

Cardale de Schrimpff has been active in the establishment of the Calima Gold Museum in Cali, in the region of the Calima. She also co-founded the Pro Calima group on the Calima culture. Part of her work was on the Malagana culture, about pre-Columbian roads,^[3] and other aspects of the Calima culture. Schrimpff has written about the Herrera Period, the Muisca people and their salt production in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes and about textiles in different parts of the country.^[1]

Cardale de Schrimpff has worked with other Muisca scholars and archaeologists in Colombia, including Sylvia Broadbent, Gonzalo Correal Urrego, Ana María Groot, and Leonor Herrera.

Cardale de Schrimpff speaks English, Spanish, French and German.^[2]

Her maiden name is Cardale, and "de Schrimpff" refers to her husband, aerial photographer Rudolf Schrimpff. He died on March 30, 2005, in an aviation accident.^[4]

Works

Cardale de Schrimpff has published many books and articles about the Calima, Muisca,^[5] Panche,^[6] and other indigenous groups of Colombia, in Spanish and English.^[7]

Selected books

• 2015 - Archaeology of Salt, chapter Pre-Columbian Salt Production in Colombia - searching for the evidence^[8]
• 2000 - Caminos precolombinos: las vías, los ingenieros y los viajeros (with Leonor Herrera)^[3]
• 1996 - Caminos prehispánicos en Calima: El estudio de caminos precolombinos de la cuenca del alto río Calima, Cordillera Occidental, Valle del Cauca^[9]
• 1992 - Calima : diez mil años de historia en el suroccidente de Colombia
• 1981 - Las salinas de Zipaquirá: su explotación indígena

Selected articles

• 2013 - Human Occupation and the Environment during the Holocene in the River Cauca Valley, Colombia. The Evidence from Paleobotany and from Soil Studies (with Neil Duncan, Ana María Groot, Pedro Botero, Alejandra Betancourt & Juan Carlos Berrio^[10]
• 2006 - Cazando animales en el bestiario cosmológico: el cocodrilo en el suroeste de Colombia y en regiones vecinas del Ecuador (800 A.C. a 500 D.C.)^[11]
• 2006 - Estudio de los restos humanos y de fauna del sitio arqueológico Hacienda Malagana (with Gonzalo Correal Urrego, Leonor Herrera & Carlos Armando Rodríguez)^[2]
• 1990 - La agricultura y el manejo de la tierra en tiempos prehispánicos^[2]
• 1989 - Ornamentos y máscaras de oro dela cultura Ilama, metalurgia del periodo formativo tardio en la cordillera occidental colombiana (with Warwick Bray, Leonor Herrera & Adriana Arias De Hassan)^[12]
• 1988 - Textiles arqueológicos del bajo rio San Jorge^[13]
• 1981 - Ocupaciones humanas en el Altiplano Cundiboyacense^[5]
• 1976 - Investigaciones arqueológicas en la zona de Pubenza, Tocaima, Cundinamarca^[6]
• 1974 - Mitología Cuna: Los Kalu según Don Alfonso Díaz Granadas (with Leonor Herrera)^[14]

Notable works

• Cardale de Schrimpff, Marianne. 1985. En busca de los primeros agricultores del Altiplano Cundiboyacense - Searching for the first farmers of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, 99–125. Banco de la República. Accessed 2016-07-08.
• Paepe, Paul de, and Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff. 1990. Resultados de un estodio petrológico de cerámicas del Periodo Herrera provenientes de la Sabana de Bogotá y sus implicaciones arqueológicas - Results of a petrological study of ceramics form the Herrera Period coming from the Bogotá savanna and its archaeological implications. Boletín Museo del Oro _. 99-119. Accessed 2016-07-08.

See also

• List of Muisca scholars
• Muisca
• Muisca agriculture
• Calima culture

References

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Muisca

Topics
General Agriculture Architecture Art Astronomy Calendar Cuisine Economy Mummification Music Muysccubun Mythology Numerals Religion Society Toponyms Warfare Women Specific Battle of Pasca (~1470) Battle of Chocontá (~1490) Chicha Duit Emeralds Muisca raft Ruana Tejo Tunjo Zoratama The Salt People Zipaquirá Nemocón Tausa Sesquilé

Geography and history

Altiplano Cundiboyacense Bogotá River Frío Fucha Juan Amarillo Soacha Teusacá Torca Tunjuelo Bogotá savanna Suba Hills Wetlands Eastern Hills Flora & fauna Suárez River Ubaté-Chiquinquirá Valley Neighbouring areas Ocetá Páramo Tenza Valley History Prehistory (<10,000 BP) Lake Humboldt El Abra Tibitó Sueva Tequendama Lithic (10,000 - 2800 BP) Piedras del Tunjo Checua Galindo Nemocón Sáchica Aguazuque Lake Herrera El Infiernito Ceramic (>800 BC) Herrera (800 BC - 800) Early Muisca (800 - 1200) Muisca Confederation (~1450 - 1540) Cabildo Mayor (>2002)

Religion and mythology

Deities Chiminigagua Bachué Chía Sué Bochica Huitaca Chibchacum Cuchavira Nencatacoa Chaquén Chibafruime Guahaioque Sacred sites Built Sun Temple Moon Temple Cojines del Zaque Goranchacha Temple Hunzahúa Well Natural Fúquene Guasca Guatavita Iguaque Siecha Suesca Tota Ubaque Tequendama Falls Mythology Myths El Dorado Monster of Lake Tota Mythological figures Goranchacha Idacansás Pacanchique Thomagata

Caciques and neighbours

Northern caciques zaque of Hunza Hunzahúa Michuá Quemuenchatocha Aquiminzaque iraca of Suamox Nompanim Sugamuxi cacique of Tundama  Tundama Southern caciques zipa of Bacatá Meicuchuca Saguamanchica Nemequene Tisquesusa Sagipa cacique of Turmequé Diego de Torres y Moyachoque Neighbours Chibcha-speaking U'wa Sutagao Guane Lache Arawak-speaking Achagua Tegua Guayupe Cariban-speaking Panche Muzo Yarigui

Spanish conquest

Conquistadors Major Gonzalo de Quesada Hernán de Quesada Baltasar Maldonado Gonzalo Suárez Rendón Juan de Céspedes Juan de San Martín Minor Antonio Díaz de Cardoso Antonio de Lebrija Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano Gonzalo García Zorro Gonzalo Macías Hernán Venegas Carrillo Juan de Albarracín Juan del Junco Juan Tafur Lázaro Fonte Luis Lanchero Martín Galeano Martín Yañéz Tafur Miguel Holguín y Figueroa Ortún Velázquez de Velasco Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela Pedro Ruíz Corredor Neighbouring conquests Conquest of the Chibchan Nations Conquest of the Muzo Conquest of the Panche Battle of Tocarema (1538)

Research and collections

Scholars Acosta Acosta Samper De Aguado Arango Broadbent De Castellanos Celis Correal Duquesne Freyle Friede Gamboa Groot Hammen Humboldt Izquierdo Langebaek De Lugo Ocampo De Piedrahita De Quesada Reichel-Dolmatoff Schrimpff Simón Triana Uricoechea Zerda Publications Elegías (1589) El Carnero (1638) Epítome (1889) Research institutes ICANH Universidad Nacional Universidad de los Andes Universidad La Javeriana University of Pittsburgh UPTC Collections Museo del Oro Archaeology Museum of Sogamoso Archaeology Museum of Pasca Metropolitan Museum of Art

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