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The Chibcha Sphere

2004
The present chapter deals with the languages of the northern Andes; the term ‘Chibcha Sphere’ has been chosen because of the historically important role of the Chibcha people in that area. In the Sixteenth century the Chibcha or Muisca were the inhabitants of the highland region that coincides with the modern Colombian departments of Boyaca and ...
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Agricultural Terraces in Chibcha Territory, Colombia

American Antiquity, 1964
AbstractReinvestigation of terraces first reported by Haury and Cubillos indicates that they were made by man, although some natural formations exist that resemble terraces. The terraces near Tocancipá and Facatativá are probably prehistoric, but those at the Chocontá, Tunja, and Soacha localities are of a different type, consisting of ridges designed ...
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The Chibchas: A History and Re-Evaluation

The Americas, 1970
Most diverse are the evaluations of the Chibchas and their civilization and even the descriptions of that civilization. Steward and Faron, for example, call it “The Greatest Chiefdom” of South America, while Kroeber calls it a “realm,” Oberg calls it a “Feudal Type State” and others use the word “Kingdoms.” At any rate, a review of some evaluations ...
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Descubrimientos Arqueologicos en Tierras de los Chibchas

American Antiquity, 1945
Los Primeros historiadores de la conquista de América que tuvieron conocimiento personal de los pueblos indígenas que desaparecieron rápidamente, exterminados sus habitantes o reemplazadas sus culturas por usos europeos, nos dejaron un incompleto relato etnológico de tales pueblos cuyos verdaderos fenómenos en lo religioso, social, industrial, técnico ...
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Fannia chibcha Grisales, Wolff & De, 2012, sp. nov.

2012
Fannia chibcha sp. nov. (Figs. 2, 21, 39, 57, 75, 93, 111, 132) Diagnosis. these characters apply only to the male sex. Hind femur strongly curved, ventral surface with pronounced pre-apical protuberance and with conspicuous tuft of developed v with hooked apices, 1 row of p with hooked apices on basal half; hind tibia with 1 row of 9–13 strong a on ...
Grisales, Diana, Wolff, Marta, De, Claudio J. B.   +2 more
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Alineamiento en Pesh (Chibcha, Honduras)

2022
Pesh (Chibchan, Honduras) has until now been described as having a morphologicalnominative-accusative alignment. This paper argues that Pesh displays a bilevel split ergative pattern for morphological alignment. On the first level of the system, Pesh features a split alignment that is conditioned by the way the arguments are expressed.
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Alineamiento mixto en Pesh (Chibcha, Honduras)

2022
Pesh (Chibchan, Honduras) has until now been described as having a morphologicalnominative-accusative alignment. This paper argues that Pesh displays a bilevel split ergative pattern for morphological alignment. On the first level of the system, Pesh features a split alignment that is conditioned by the way the arguments are expressed.
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A Statistical Morpho-Syntactic Typology Study of Colorado (Chibcha)

International Journal of American Linguistics, 1961
0. The aim of this paper is to apply one aspect of density range typology-sentence profile-to the comparison of Colorado' texts (1) among themselves according to nonlinguistically affected speech varieties, (2) with Cayapa, a closely related language, (3) with Spanish, an unrelated language, and (4) with texts translated into Colorado by a foreign ...
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Chibcha

2021
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A PREHISTORIC FIELD SYSTEM IN CHIBCHA TERRITORY, COLOMBIA

Ñawpa Pacha, 1968
(1968). A PREHISTORIC FIELD SYSTEM IN CHIBCHA TERRITORY, COLOMBIA. Nawpa Pacha: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 135-147.
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