Anarchy in the Trenches: Perspectives on Buen Suceso

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Finding Community in the Past and Present through the 2022 PARCC Field School at Buen Suceso, Ecuador" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In many ways, Buen Suceso is a unique archaeological site. Not only is it a multicomponent site, with evidence for occupation throughout almost the entirety of the ~2,200-year Valdivia sequence and specialized use by the much later Manteño culture, but it exhibits an occupational history that does not always adhere to the predominant mode of thinking about social organization in Formative era settlements in coastal Ecuador. Its geographical location in the cloud forest at the base of the Chongon-Colonche hills, 9 km inland in the Manglaralto River valley, places Buen Suceso at an environmental fulcrum point in the region. This paper introduces the site and organizing principles behind the 2022 archaeological field school, providing context for the session. The papers that follow discuss a variety of perspectives on the site along with how the site is understood in the present by archaeologists, students, and the people of the community of Dos Mangas. The ordering of authorship for the papers in this session do not necessarily reflect a hierarchy of intellectual contributions but rather who can pay for membership and meeting registration.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Finding Community in the Past and Present through the 2022 PARCC Field School at Buen Suceso, Ecuador   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36625.0