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Archaeology is increasingly employing remote sensing techniques such as airborne lidar (light detection and ranging), terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), and photogrammetry in tropical environments where dense vegetation hinders to a great extent the ability to understand the scope of ancient landscape modification. These technologies have enabled archaeologists to develop sophisticated analyses that overturn traditional misconceptions of tropical ecologies and the human groups that have inhabited them in the long term. This article presents new data on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia that reveals the extent to which its ancient societies transformed this landscape, which is frequently thought of as pristine. By recursively integrating remote sensing and archaeology, this study contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship examining ancient land use and occupation in densely forested contexts.

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]Universidad Nacional de Colombia · Bogotá · vol. 32, n. � 1 (ene-jun) · 2018 · issn 0120-3045 (impreso) · 2256-5752 (en línea) · pp. 171-204 ambiguities, conflicts, and consensuses regarding territory: an ethno-historical study of la lengüeta, sierra nevada de santa marta abstract Located in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, La Lengüeta is marked by profound economic, sociopolitical, and cultural complexities. In addition to belonging to a Natural National Park and an indigenous reservation, it has been settled by farmers from different regions of the country. It has also experienced the Colombian State's problematic presence as well as of non-State actors. I analyze from an ethnohistorical approach how differing ways of understanding space and territory have shaped La Lengüeta over the past 50 years. Specifically, I address how La Lengüeta has been inserted into Colombian economic and productive dynamics, the migration processes, and the tensions among different human groups and institutions in this region.

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