“Tola Boayacu Puyu” (Upper Pastaza, Ecuador) in the understanding of the Amazonian urbanism and food consumption

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the last fifty years, from Amazonian Archaeology there has been a remarkable and growing debate about the origin and dispersion of the cultures of the area, their carrying capacity, population number and density, political structure, and links with the adjacent geographical areas, as the Andes to its western border. More recently, carrying capacity and paleobothanical analysis have added complexity to interpretations, yielding unpublished data for the region. This report presents survey and excavation results from the site “Tola Boayacu Puyu,” located in the city of Puyo, Ecuador, and shows ceramics from the Regional Development Period (500 BC-AD 500) to the Integration Period (AD 500-1500). Analysis of carrying capacity and the biocultural remains are especially presented, including results in paleodiet and macronutrients showing an important variety of foods. Jointly with other archaeological sites in the Upper Pastaza (e.g., Río Chico, Té Zulay), “Tola Boayacu Puyu” is an example of a certain type of Amazonian urbanism and an opportunity to compare different settlement patterns nearby, like those of the Upano river.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40397.0