The Gold Museum in Bogota recently presented an exhibition of the archeological discoveries at Malagana, near the river Bolo in the municipality of Palmira in the Cauca Valley. According to the archeologists, this was another of the sub-Andean cacique-based settlements in the southwest of Colombia, dating back to between 70 and 140 A.D.The typology of the objects discovered links them to the sequence of cultural manifestations known as the Calima culture, which extended over more than 500 years and assumed many different styles. But the Malagana finds have certain particularities in terms of theme, technique, and design which suggest that...