Keywords
war
Colonial Period
archaeology
Bocachica - Cartagena de Indias
Key words plus
Cartagena (Colombia) - Geography-Maps
Cartagena (Colombia)-Social
archeology andHistory
ports-History-Caribbean Region
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Abstract
Maps and plans of Cartagena de Indias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have contributed to consolidatean interpretation framework capable of dissolving the nature-culture and land-sea dichotomies. These type of cartographieswere made in order to describe and characterize a space and a territory composed by an heterogeneity of humanand non-human actors with the same ability and strength to construct a society. Lies and truths were embodiedthrough maps. Facts were untold and several aspects were over-exaggerated. Indeed the colonial representations ofthe port were based on the topology of war. The Bocachica´s canal is an example of a place where methodology canbe applied to use the conjunction, overlapping and polysemy of the cartographies which have helped to develop thearchaeological study of maritime battles of 1697 and 1741. This methodology also aims to characterize the evolutionof maritime warfare landscape.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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