Detailed study of charcoal samples from the archaeological site of Peña Roja, along the middle course of the Río Caquetá interpreted through a new ethnographic model for the tropical rain forest of Colombian Amazonia. Peña Roja yielded evidence of two prehispanic occupations. The earlier, by preceramic hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists, provided dates around 9160 BP. The later occupation, by a group which produced ceramics and engaged in agriculture, was dated to between 1900 and 400 BP. Modern comparative material was obtained by collecting samples of the kinds of wood used by indigenous communities presently inhabiting Colombian Amazonia. In Spanish.

Published by Fundación de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Nacionales of the Banco de la República de Colombia and Department of Anthropology and Centro de Estudios Socioculturales e Internacionales of the Universidad de los Andes, 2005. 361 pp. ISBN: 958-95153-7-1.

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