The Grandmother of the Uruguayans (Spanish: Abuela de los uruguayos), as she is known because there is no record of her name, was a South American indigenous woman deceased approximately since at least 1600 years ago counted backwards from 2012, whose skeleton is the oldest one that has been found so far in the territory of what is nowadays known as Uruguay.

during an excavation conducted by researchers of the School of Humanities and Sciences of the University of the Republic under one of the indian mounds in Rocha Department, where she was buried.

[1][2][3] In 2012, a phalanx bone was sent to the laboratory of the Physics Department of the University of Arizona to find out the approximate date of death.

[1][3] On the occasion of his visit to Uruguay in November 2018, the Brazilian specialist in forensic facial reconstruction Cícero Moraes proposed the director of the Museum of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Art in Montevideo (MAPI), Facundo de Almeida, to perform a facial reconstruction of a skull representative of Uruguay, something that he did in every country he visited.

[1] The undergraduate student of anthropology Luis Vázquez carried out the scanning process using the photogrammetry technique, taking 120 photos of the skull from different angles, that subsequently sent to Moraes for the digital reconstruction.