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The Mabaruma Phase: A Return to the More Probable Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donald W. Lathrap
Donald W. Lathrap*
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University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
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In a recent publication Evans and Meggers have accused me of reinterpreting their work in an erroneous manner on two separate occasions (Evans and Meggers 1964). In one instance (Lathrap 1963a), I suggested that the Machalilla complex of Coastal Ecuador might be a member of the same ceramic tradition which also gave rise to Early Tutishcainyo and Late Tutishcainyo in the central Ucayali Basin in Peru. In the other case (Lathrap 1964), I offered what appeared to me to be a more reasonable seriation of the excavated levels of the Mabaruma phase of northwestern British Guiana and suggested that the age of the Mabaruma phase had been underestimated by a large factor.

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American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , April 1966 , pp. 558 - 566
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1966

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