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University Alabama Press, Date: 1996-03-30. Paperback. Near Fine. Tight and clean. NOT ex-library. Exterior looks great, spine is uncreased. An all-around excellent copy. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Image on cover different than pictured. 1996. University Alabama Press ISBN 0817307923 9780817307929 [US]

Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, Date: 1996. xvii, 234pp, index, references, appendices, bw ills, map. Or card covers. As new. Long famous for its antiquities the Santiago-Cayapas region has been relatively neglected froma scientific archaeology standpoint. Building on evidence of the previous decade this book documents an eventful prehistory spanning three millenia. A highlight of this prehistory was the reign of La Tolita as a regional centre from 200BC to 350 AD.. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo. 1996. The University of Alabama Press ISBN 0817307923 9780817307929 [AU]

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ISBN10: 0817307923, ISBN13: 9780817307929, [publisher: The University of Alabama Press, Alabama] Softcover Paperback. Although long famous for its antiquitiesnotably intricate goldwork, elaborate pottery, and earthen moundsthe Santiago-Cayapas 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. Building on evidence obtained during the last decade, this book documents an eventful prehistory for Santiago-Cayapas that spans three millennia. A highlight of this prehistory was the reign of La Tolita as a regional center from 200 B.C. to A.D. 350. Archaeological data from La Tolita's hinterland indicate a complex and changing social landscape in which La Tolita's hegemony was never absolute nor uncontested. 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.' This work documents the prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas region in Ecuador, focusing on the reign of La Tolita as a regional centre from 200 BC to 350 AD. Archaeological data indicates a complex and changing social landscape in which La Tolita's hegemony ...
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