Timeline | Proyecto AD

About this English version

This translation follows Proyecto AD’s Spanish timeline. BP means before 1950; calibrated ages are marked cal BP. Dates, uncertainties, laboratory codes and source associations are retained. Ferrería, Marrón Inciso and La Cancana remain archaeological classification names, not labels for particular peoples.

Historical quotations are project translations of the Spanish readings supplied here, not quotations from published English editions. Their Spanish texts can be expanded alongside them. The map of the Americas and the interactive chart are available in English. Existing images and the video retain their original visual content; English captions and the ten-step salt-production guide explain them.

Terminology guide: debitage means flakes and other debris from stone-working; taphonomy studies what happens to remains after death or deposition; an Andisol is a soil commonly formed in volcanic materials; temper is material added to a clay body; a palimpsest preserves traces of successive uses.

Interactive journey

Ways of inhabiting the Aburrá Valley: from deep time to 1541

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Station 01

Vancouver referencing

Section references

Citations retain the numbers assigned at first appearance in Proyecto AD’s general bibliography. This section therefore does not begin a new numbering sequence and may contain gaps between numbers. Superscripts lead to the corresponding references; each entry also links to the general bibliography. Supplementary sources are explicitly identified. Publication titles and bibliographic records remain in their original languages.