Abstract

FIELD, Les. THE GOLD SYSTEM: EXPLORATIONS OF THE (ONGOING) FATE OF COLOMBIA'S PRE-COLUMBIAN GOLD ARTIFACTS. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2012, n.14, pp.67-94. ISSN 1900-5407.

Guaquería, the practice of non-archaeological excavation of antiquity in the Andean region, has undergone substantive historical transformation in Colombia over hundreds of years. This article understands this practice as part of a dynamic system of relationships between archaeologists, museums, private collectors and the guaqueros. Occasioned by the mass-guaquería of the early 1990s when the "Malagana Treasure" was unearthed, I periodize these relationships with reference to Colombian anthropologists' scholarship and the significance of the Museo del Oro in Bogotá.

Keywords : Guaquería; archaeology; Gold Museum; historical transformation; licit-illicit systems.

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