Castellated Rims and Silica Bodies: Rethinking Valdivia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Recent Innovations in Ecuadorian Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Initial attempts to explain the origins of pottery on the coast of Ecuador and in the rest of the Americas focused on transpacific contact. During the last few decades this debate has quieted as the Vegas and Valdivia phases of southwest Ecuador became better known. Nevertheless, there has remained a chronological hiatus between the two phases. Demographic and settlement data is combined with geoarchaeological interpretations of the mid-Holocene record to demonstrate how simple demographic growth combined with geomorphological changes of the coastal landscape yielded changes in settlement patterns, growth of settlements, and a transition in social production that led to the production of pottery and the creation of early villages.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Recent Innovations in Ecuadorian Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

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Abstract Id(s): 31955