Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda

dr. Carl Henrik Langebaek
Born	1961 Bogotá,  Colombia
Residence	Bogotá
Nationality	Colombian
Fields	Archaeology, anthropology, history
Institutions	Universidad de Los Andes
Alma mater	University of Pittsburgh
Thesis	Patterns of Coca consumptions in Northern South America (1993)
Known for	Muisca studies, coca research
Notable awards	Premio Alejandro Ángel Escobar en Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, 2009

Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda (Bogotá, 1961) is a Colombian anthropologist, archaeologist and historian. He has been contributing on the knowledge of archaeological evidences, especially the Herrera Period and the Muisca. Langebaek is vice-chancellor for academic affairs at Universidad de los Andes and speaks Spanish and English.

Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda was born in the Colombian capital Bogotá as son of a Danish father, also an anthropologist, and Colombian mother. He attended the Gimnasio Moderno in the city. Langebaek did his undergraduate studies in anthropology at the Universidad de Los Andes from 1980 to 1985 and his Master's from 1988 to 1993 at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating with a thesis called Regional Archaeology in the Muisca Territory. The case of Fúquene and Susa. During the same years Langebaek performed his doctoral publishing his PhD thesis in 1993 under the title Patterns of Coca consumptions in Northern South America. The anthropologist has spent eight years in the archives looking for information on the indigenous peoples he assessed in his work.

Since 1992 Langebaek is associate professor at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá and from 2000 to 2011 he was the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the university.

Langebaek has worked in National Park Tayrona, Fúquene Valley, Barichara, Bahía de Neguaje and north Ecuador and his heroes are Charles Darwin and Niels Bohr.

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