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Jorge Gamboa Mendoza

Jorge Gamboa Mendoza
Born (1970-01-27) January 27, 1970 (age 54)
NationalityColombian
Alma materUniversidad Nacional de Colombia
Known forAnthropology, Colombian history
Scientific career
FieldsHistory, anthropology
InstitutionsInstituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH)
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)
The site of El Abra, dated at 12,400 years BP, one of the oldest human evidences in South America

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

Biography

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Jorge Gamboa Mendoza was born in Pamplona in the northern department of Norte de Santander. He studied anthropology as an undergraduate at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá from 1986 to 1991 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 matrimonial 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]

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