Location

Burial Practices and Funerals

Mourning

Organized Ceremonial

Bibliographies in Sources

Culture Summary

Food Quest

Annual Cycle

Diet

Land Use

Food Preparation

Lithic Industries

General Tools

Utensils

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Visual Arts

Ethnogeography

Identification

Cult of the Dead

General Character of Religion

Settlement Patterns

Community Structure

Ecclesiastical Organization

Property System

Organization and Analysis of Results

Population

Morbidity

Mortality

Extended Families

Climate

Dwellings

Ornament

Personal Grooming

Reviews and Critiques

Topography and Geology

Status, Role, and Prestige

Collecting

Hunting and Trapping

Fishing

External Trade

Tillage

Cereal Agriculture

Flora

Processing of Basic Materials

Production and Supply

Chronologies and Culture Sequences

Instigation of War

Diagnostic Material Attributes

Occupational Specialization

TRADITION SUMMARY: EARLY NORTHWEST SOUTH AMERICAN LITTORAL

ORIENTATION

ENVIRONMENT

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

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ABSOLUTE TIME PERIOD

RELATIVE TIME PERIOD

LOCATION

DIAGNOSTIC MATERIAL ATTRIBUTES

REGIONAL SUBTRADITIONS

IMPORTANT SITES

CLIMATE

TOPOGRAPHY

GEOLOGY

BIOTA

SETTLEMENT SYSTEM

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

HOUSING

POPULATION, HEALTH, AND DISEASE

SUBSISTENCE

WILD FOODS

DOMESTIC FOODS

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

UTENSILS

ORNAMENTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

DIFFERENTIAL ACCESS OR CONTROL OF RESOURCES

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

CONFLICT

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

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The Early Northwest South America tradition is one of nomadic or semi-nomadic peoples living in coastal regions of Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and Panama, between 9000 and 5500 BP. What little is known about community organization suggests presence of small numbers of extended families of 10-25 individuals.  Subsistence practices involved hunting, fishing, and collecting seasonally available resources. There is also evidence for early horticulture, the earliest evidence of plant cultivation in the Americas.

Early Northwest South American Littoral

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