Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

Who was Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff?

Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff ' was an anthropologist and archaeologist known for his in-depth fieldwork among tropical rainforest cultures in Amazonia and also among dozens of other indigenous groups in Colombia in the Caribbean Coast, as well as amon Pacific Coast, Llanos savannahs, and in the Andean and inter-Andean regions as well as in other areas of Colombia. For nearly six decades he realized ethnographic and anthropological studies, as well as archeological research, and as a scholar was a prolific writer and public figure renown as a staunch defender of indigenous peoples. He died in 1994 in Colombia.