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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455050003321

Autore

DeBoer Warren R

Titolo

Traces behind the Esmeraldas shore [[electronic resource] ] : prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas Region, Ecuador / / Warren R. DeBoer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c1996

ISBN

0-8173-8362-X

0-585-14083-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

986.6/3501

Soggetti

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)

Electronic books.

Esmeraldas (Ecuador : Province) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

"Survey along the lower Cayapas and Santiago rivers located ca. 200 habitation sites. Ceramic distinctions define seven phases, partly sequential and partly regional; 25 C14 dates extend from ca. 400 BC to AD 1400. Settlements become smaller, more dispersed, and culturally isolated after ca. AD 400"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.