Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore: Prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas Region, Ecuador - Couverture souple

DeBoer, Warren

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0817307923 ISBN 13 : 9780817307929

Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 1996

Synopsis

Although long famous for its antiquities--notably intricate goldwork, elaborate pottery, and earthen mounds--the Santiago-Cayapas region of coastal Ecuador has been relatively neglected from the standpoint of scientific archaeology. Until recently, no sound chronology was available, and even the approximate age of the region's most impressive monument, the large and much-looted site of La Tolita, remained in doubt.

Building on evidence obtained during the last decade, this book documents an eventful prehistory for Santiago-Cayapas that spans three millennia. A highlight of this prehistory was the reign of La Tolita as a regional center from 200 B.C. to A.D. 350. Archaeological data from
La Tolita's hinterland indicate a complex and changing social landscape in which La Tolita's hegemony was never absolute nor uncontested.

Abundantly illustrated and written in a crisp, witty, and occasionally irreverent style, Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore will stimulate debate and rankle interpretive conventions about those social formations that archaeologists gloss as 'chiefdoms.'

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Warren R. DeBoer is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Queens College of the City University of New York. He received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Alabama Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0817307923
• ISBN 13: 9780817307929
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible