Recent archaeological excavations at a Machalilla (“Early Formative”) site on Ecuador's south coast have resulted in the recovery of charred maize kernel and cupule fragments. A detailed study of the Machalilla maize described here suggests that two primitive varieties were present on the coast of Ecuador by 1200 B.C. Previously published reports that have attempted to establish the presence of maize during the preceding Valdivia phase are reviewed briefly, and their incompleteness is discussed.
The Pacific Coast of Colombia has a complex history of change and upheaval. How is one to reach to it, with the variety of its human experiences? And how to grasp it from the diverse and often fragmentary sources that are its archaeology?
Este ensayo describe artefactos y cultura material provenientes de la costa pacífica colombiana y conversaciones sostenidas con indígenas wounan y afrocolombianos, y muestra por qué la arqueología debe involucrarse con la vida de las personas que habitan cerca de estos vestigios y con el porvenir de la antropología latinoamericana.
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