The pre-Muisca Herrera Period of Colombia's highland Altiplano Cundiboyacense (c. 800 BCE–800 CE) represents the earliest agricultural and ceramic-using communities of the Cundinamarca–Boyacá plateau, laying the foundations for the later Muisca Confederation.
The Herrera Period of Colombia's Altiplano Cundiboyacense ended around 800 CE as Muisca social complexity emerged, with the Herrera ceramic and agricultural communities transitioning into the hierarchical Muisca Confederation that persisted until the Spanish conquest of 1537.
Covers pre-Muisca Colombia within the broader context of Andean and South American peoples; contextualizes the Herrera tradition's agricultural society.
Places the Herrera Period within the northern Andean pre-Columbian sequence leading to the Muisca.