Valdivia Culture (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter W. Stahl. Josefina Vásquez Pazmiño. Florencio Delgado Espinoza.

The material record of Ecuador’s Early Formative Valdivia culture has long been approached from the perspective of a New World, particularly an Amazonian, shamanism incorporating foundational features of animistic ontology. More recently enigmatic stone plaques from Northern Manabí Province have been included in the non-secular repertoire of later Valdivia phases; however, their temporal and spatial associations remained poorly known. Investigations in the Coaque Valley clearly establish their...