Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore: Prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas Region, Ecuador by Warren R. DeBoer

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Although long famous for its antiquities--notably intricate goldwork, elaborate pottery, and earthen mounds, the Santiago-Caypas 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.

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."

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