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Formative Period Occupations in the Highlands of Northern Ecuador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Thomas P. Myers
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Abstract

Valdivia-related ceramics found near Lake San Pablo (Imbabura) demonstrate that this area was in contact with coastal Ecuador prior to 2000 B.C. The interaction between the coast and highlands is attributed to the existence of trade routes which probably originated in preceramic times. It is suggested that coca was among the scarce resources which attracted trade to the northern highlands.

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American Antiquity , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , July 1976 , pp. 353 - 360
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1976

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