Editorial Unimagdalena

Description in English: The main objective of this work is to analyze social dynamics and possible patterns and models of spatial occupation developed by the different cultural groups that inhabited the so-called Tairona cultural area, in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in a chronological framework that spans approximately from the 10th century to the final years of the 16th century.Sources include the principal archaeological works carried out in the region, documents from the General Archive of Indies in Seville, the General Archive of the Nation in Bogotá and the National Library of Madrid, as well as reports, maps, designs, projects, and notebooks from the Library of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History, as well as the Documentation Center of the Pro Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Foundation, and traveler diaries or chronicles, published throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The builders of this great civilization occupying the northern and western faces of the Sierra Nevada created one of the Caribbean's most complex cultures and one of the least studied. In their struggle for survival, these peoples had to develop sophisticated adaptation and management strategies, not only in the very complex, harsh, and challenging environment where they had settled but also facing progressive pressure from European invaders since the beginning of the 16th century, which boxed them INSERT INTO the highest and most inaccessible places in the Sierra. After a long process of resistance lasting almost a hundred years, these dynamics were undone by the Castilian invasion; when these settlements were gradually incapacitated and kept from functioning properly, ending forcibly and fatally depopulated. These pages are meant for learning, with the rigor of scientific studies, about one of the most complex and complete societies in human history in the American continent; from their wisdom and their formidable organizational capacity, which made it possible for them to grow, create and develop in the way they did. There are no forgotten cities because people's memory is always stubborn.