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Formative Period Occupations in the Highlands of Northern Ecuador: Rejoinder to Athens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Thomas P. Myers
Thomas P. Myers*
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska State Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68508
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Abstract

Athens’ attack is based upon the fact that I did not cite an unpublished manuscript in my possession. In fact, the paper has little bearing upon the temporal argument. The radiocarbon dates which it contains should not be applied to the material in question. However, the paper does contain information which supports my hypothesis of contacts between the Coast and the Highlands. Such contacts help to account for the ceramic similarities between the two regions. New dates from the La Chimba site are internally inconsistent so that they cannot be used to support either point of view. However, the stratigraphic position of Espejo Phase ceramics beneath resist painted pottery is consistent with a Formative Period dating for the Espejo Phase.

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American Antiquity , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 1978 , pp. 497 - 500
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1978

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