Contemporary Archeology And Urban Ruins: Urban Development Of The Western Sector Of The City of Bogota Between The 19th And 20th Centuries

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

From the archaeological study and enhancement of "urban ruin", understood as an interpretive tool for the assessment of recent materiality, a disordered and poorly defined range of traces of the industrialization process and its consequences can be involved to account for the particularities of the urban historical configuration of the western sector of Bogotá city, which has historically been established as a marginal, commercial and industrial place.

The urban ruins of this sector are forgotten and in state of deterioration due to lack of recognition and appropriation of heritage. The sociocultural actors and the patrimonial valuation policies of movable/immovable property are related to this type of ruins, among them abandonment, segregation, marginality, ignorance, and disinterest. This research objective is to strengthen the historical knowledge of this sector of Bogotá between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century from an interdisciplinary approach (archaeological, ethnographic, historical perspective).

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
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