Heritage Conversations with Dos Mangas

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.

​​​​Archaeological investigations in Dos Mangas began in 2006, and continued with excavation of a Valdivia village site, Buen Suceso, in 2009, 2017, 2019, and 2022. Those and subsequent excavations have combined archaeological inquiry with community engagement activities such as presentations in the primary school, workshops for community guides, and presentations at community meetings. This paper presents the results of community heritage discussions in 2022 conducted through a series of interviews and workshops with longtime residents of Dos Mangas. These discussions and oral histories provide an intimate insight into important topics and issues faced by the community, both in the past and the present. These include access to clean drinking water, religious practices, agricultural production, migratory patterns, the importance of protecting the environment, the development of a community museum, and the role of eco-tourism in the community. These discussions also provide a roadmap to understanding community relationships with Buen Suceso and the rivers Culebra and Colín overtime. Finally, utilizing these discussions and oral histories as well as some GIS multispectral imagery work, we lay the foundation for a collaborative written history of the community and its dynamics with the environment and archaeological past.

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): 36809.0