Julio César Cubillos Chaparro

Photo taken by: Hector Llanos V. (1975) (retrieved from: http://ensayoshistoricosyarqueologicos.blogspot.com/2015/04/)

1919: Born in the city of Santafé de Bogotá.

1939: Received the title of instructor.

1944: Earned a degree in Social and Economic Sciences from the Escuela Normal Superior of Bogotá.

1945: Completed postgraduate studies in Ethnology at the National Ethnological Institute.

1946: Professor at the Escuela Normal Superior, teaching the subjects of Geography of Colombia and Cartography.

1950: Conducted research in Tumaco, on the Pacific Coast. Initially on Morro Island and later south of Tumaco on a farm located near the Matajes River, on the border with Ecuador. This was the first research conducted on the Tumaco culture in Colombia.

1950-1951: Awarded a Guggenheim Foundation scholarship to specialize at the University of Arizona in the latest archaeological techniques, particularly cultural stratigraphy.

1952-1953: Head of the Archaeology Section at the Colombian Institute of Anthropology.

1954: Reorganized the Ethnological Institute of the University of Cauca, which operated in the Casa Mosquera. One of his most notable works in the city of Popayán was the discovery and study of the ceremonial pyramid El Morro de Tulcán. This is a natural hill adapted for a ceremonial pyramid with two ramps: one to the north and another to the south. He discovered a cemetery of women and children there, leading to the consideration that the ceremonial pyramid was related to funerary rites.

1960-1965: Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Valle, teaching Social Anthropology and Popular Medicine. Later, he moved to the newly established Department of History within the Faculty of Humanities, where he taught courses on Pre-Columbian Social Formations, Introduction to Geography, Anthropology, and others.

1967: Founded the Regional Center for Archaeological Research in Cali, which later became the Archaeological Museum of the University of Valle.

1971: Began his archaeological research in San Agustín.

1994: On July 3, the then Governor of Valle, Carlos Holguín Sardi, awarded him the Orden al Mérito Vallecaucano in the rank of Cruz de Caballero.

1994: On July 6, while bedridden due to illness, he received an Honorary Doctorate in History from the hands of the university's Rector, Dr. Jaime Galarza.

1994: In July, shortly after midnight, Dr. Cubillos passed away at the home of his daughter, Dr. Patricia Cubillos Bernal (a physician), due to pancreatic cancer.

Work

1945: Archaeology of Rioblanco (Chaparral, Tolima). Archaeology Bulletin: Vol. I, No. 6, Bogotá, pp. 519-530.

1946: Notes for the Study of the Pijao Culture. Archaeology Bulletin: Vol. II, No. 1, Bogotá, pp. 47-81.

1950: Tumaco in Colombian Archaeology. Nature and Technique Journal, Vol. I, No. 5, Argra Publishing, Bogotá.

1954: Archaeology of the Banks of the Magdalena River. Espinal, Tolima. In collaboration with Víctor Bedoya. Colombian Journal of Anthropology, Vol. II, Bogotá, pp. 115-144.

1955: The Quimbaya. Department of Cultural Extension, Manizales, Caldas.

1956: Tumaco (Archaeological Notes). Ministry of Education, Department of Cultural Extension, Minerva Publishing, Bogotá.

1958: Pubenza. Archaeology of Popayán, Cauca, Colombia. Anthropological Bulletin No. 1, Institute of Ethnology, University of Cauca, University Press, Popayán.

1958: Notes on Aboriginal Musical Instruments Found in Colombia. Colombian Academy of History, Anthropology Library, Tribute to Professor Paul Rivet (French Ethnologist), pp. 169-189, ABC Publishing, Bogotá.

1959: Discovery of a Pre-Hispanic Ceremonial Center in Popayán, Colombia. Tlatoani Journal. National School of Anthropology and History. Second era, No. 12, Mexico City, pp. 47-48, June.

1959: El Morro Tulcán (Pre-Hispanic Pyramid). Archaeology of Popayán, Cauca, Colombia. Colombian Journal of Archaeology, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Bogotá, pp. 216-357.

1960: Some Conclusions on the Pyramid of Morro de Tulcán. Police Forces Journal, No. 80, pp. 70-76, Bogotá, Colombia Lithography, Bogotá.

1980: Archaeology of San Agustín. El Estrecho, El Parador, and Mesita C. National Archaeological Research Foundation, Bank of the Republic, Arco Lithography, Bogotá.

1984: Pre-Hispanic Settlements on the Flat Floor of the Cauca River. National Archaeological Research Foundation, Bank of the Republic, Bogotá.

1986: Alto de El Purutal. National Archaeological Research Foundation, Bank of the Republic, Arco Lithography, Bogotá.

1991: Archaeology of San Agustín. Exploration and Reconstruction of the Artificial Mound at the Ullumbe Site. Archaeology Bulletin, Year 6, January 1991, No. 1.

Academic and Scientific Societies

Geographical Society of Colombia, Bogotá, 1947.

Current Anthropology, Chicago, United States, 1960.

Pan American Institute of Geography and History, Mexico, 1960.

Association of Friends of the Anthropological Museum of Caldas, Manizales, 1959.

Colombian Institute of Anthropology.

Advisor to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Vallecaucano Institute for Scientific Research (INCIVA).

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