From Cooking to Smelting, the Social Technology of Pyrotechnology of Earth Ovens
Author(s): Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo; Florencio Delgado Espinoza
Year: 2018
Summary
The effects of earth ovens on societies is a topic that has not been consider much, mainly because the limitation of archaeological findings. Because our research has been mainly concentrated in floodplains environments, we have been successful in recovering a large sample that allows to propose explanations on the variability of them, and the relationship that features have in understanding some basic aspects of the social characteristic of the societies that created them. As a study case, we compare earth ovens from excavations conducted in lowlands Ecuador, and Colombia, that range from preceramic context, early ceramic societies like San Jacinto and Valdivia, to latter furnaces developed by the Jama Coaque and Manteño of Coastal Ecuador, and Colombia's lower Magdalena societies. Within this deep time perspective, we are proposing some basic model of the environmental and social relation of ancient Pyrotechnology.
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From Cooking to Smelting, the Social Technology of Pyrotechnology of Earth Ovens. Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo, Florencio Delgado Espinoza. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444146)
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min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;
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Abstract Id(s): 18764