A Biography of the Yumbos

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Yumbos, Barbacoan peoples of the western flank of the Andes in northern Ecuador’s Pichincha province, have been the principal object of my studies for the past four decades. I draw upon archaeological research by myself and my team (especially including Alejandra Gudiño), as well as ethnohistoric, linguistic, genetic, and other studies by a variety of scholars to present conclusions—firm as well as tentative—on Yumbo origins, migrations, technology, population, and sociopolitical complexity. Also discussed briefly are migrations of other Barbacoan groups in southern Colombia and Ecuador as well as surviving indigenous peoples with Yumbo heritage.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38324.0