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Author DeBoer, Warren R.

Title Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages)
Contents Figures; Tables; Foreword; 1. Backward; 2. Coast, River, and Forest; 3. Sketching the Sequence; 4. Vagrant Vestiges: Valdivia and the Mafa Phase; 5. La Tolita's Hinterland: The Selva Alegre Phase; 6. From Patas to Pedestals: The Guadual Phase; 7. La Tolitah Aftermath: Herradura, Las Cruces, and Mysterious Mina; 8. Back to Barbarism: The Tumbaviro Phase; 9. The Coming of the Chachi; 10. Local Linkages and Global Extensions; Afterword; Appendix 1: Textiles; Appendix 2: Phytoliths; References Cited; Index
Summary Although long famous for its antiquities--notably intricate goldwork, elaborate pottery, and earthen mounds--the Santiago-Cayapas region of coastal Ecuador has been relatively neglected from the standpoint of scientific archaeology. Until recently, no sound chronology was available, and even the approximate age of the region's most impressive monument, the large and much-looted site of La Tolita, remained in doubt. Building on evidence obtained during the last decade, this book documents an eventful prehistory for Santiago-Cayapas that spans three millennia. A highlight of this prehistory wa
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Subject Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Esmeraldas (Province) -- Antiquities
Indians of South America -- Material culture -- Ecuador -- Esmeraldas (Province)
Cayapa Indians -- Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Ecuador -- Esmeraldas (Province)
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indians of South America -- Antiquities
Indians of South America -- Material culture
SUBJECT Esmeraldas (Ecuador : Province) -- Antiquities
Subject Ecuador -- Esmeraldas (Province)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817383626
081738362X