This paper aims to provide a synopsis of the fluctuations in the academic dynamics of archaeology in Colombia, with the main objective of showing that it has gone through multiple changes in its methodological and academic approach, going from being a discipline concerned with the reconstruction of the past through the analysis of archaeological objects and sites, to a self-aware multidisciplinary corpus that analyzes the social characteristics of past and present populations, thanks to the incorporation of disciplinary components that recognize the dynamics: political and socio-cultural, in which the communities are immersed. For this, the current text starts with a brief tour through the historical sections that point out the different disciplinary approaches together with the criticism they have had, concluding that through the affiliation of currents of thought from other areas of study, archaeology was transformed into a discipline that in relation to the studies of the past tries to give answers to the problems of the present, under important challenges and agendas.