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Archaeology in Lowland South America and the Caribbean, 1935-60*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Irving Rouse
Irving Rouse*
Affiliation:
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Abstract

Archaeological research in those parts of South America not included in Nuclear America is reviewed with an emphasis on Amazonia and the Caribbean area. Southern South America is primarily important at present for the well documented series of Early Man sites which indicate that American Indians had reached the farthest periphery of the hemisphere by as early as 7000 B.C. There have been three main developments and one shortcoming in the archaeology of Amazonia and the Caribbean area during the past 25 years. The developments are the discovery and formulation of new cultural complexes or phases, the establishment of chronological control which has been most successful in the Caribbean area, and the introduction and archaeological testing of Steward's concept of evolutionary levels correlated with environment, especially in Amazonia. The shortcoming is the lack of interest in reconstructing the culture of the excavated sites.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , July 1961 , pp. 56 - 62
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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Presented in a symposium, Twenty-five Years of American Archaeology, at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, May 6, 1960, New Haven, Connecticut.

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