[1] 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.

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.

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.

The potato and maize are not originally from Colombia, yet from Peru and Mexico respectively and were cultivated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense during the Herrera Period, around 3000 BP (1000 BCE).

[7] In 2009 the Premio Alejandro Ángel Escobar en Ciencias Sociales y Humanas was awarded to Langebaek for his book Los herederos del pasado.