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The preceramic Las Vegas culture of coastal Ecuador
American antiquity • 50 (3) • Published In 1985 • Pages: 613-637
By: Stothert, Karen E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Stothert summarizes the excavations and analyses at site OGSE-80 in Ecuador. This site is the type site for the Las Vegas culture. Stothert describes the artifacts, burials, settlement data, economy, and faunal and floral remains from the site. There is evidence of plant collection before 8000 B.P. (bottle gourd and primitive maize) and Stothert speculates that these plants were probably cultivated. Stothert examines the prehistoric and current environment on the Santa Elena Peninsula and concludes the climate is much the same, with most differences being accounted for through modern deforestation and other modern land practices.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Flora
- General tools
- Burial practices and funerals
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Northwest South American Littoral
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwestern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977-1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 8000 BP - 6600 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- site OGSE-80; Ecuador
- NotesAdditional notes
- Karen E. Stothert
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 635-637)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46036122
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Antiquities