Caracterización de las figuras zoomorfas de la cultura Muisca en el periodo Temprano y Tardío

Abstract

Next, the work carried out in the Identity and Visual Culture hotbed of the Faculty of Graphic Design of the Santo Tomás University, whose objective was the semiotic and taxonomic analysis carried out on the Early and Late Muisca votive pieces with Zoomorphic characteristics, will be exposed. The research presents a state of the art on similar studies carried out in other contexts that provide us with the bases to methodologically strengthen our proposal, it also has an extensive investigation into the Muisca culture, iconography and a section on taxonomy that accounts for a classification methodology from the semiotic, physiognomic1 and historical point of view of the Muisca culture before the conquest. At the end of the document, the classification and relationship of 10 animal species that exists in the Muisca mythological universe with their environment and the scope at the end of the project will be reflected.