Ecuador: Following an Unusual Archaeological Hypothesis

Abstract:

Over half a century ago, the Ecuadorian archaeologist Emilio Estrada and his American colleagues proposed a bold hypothesis on” foreign” roots of the local ceramic technology; they based their ideas on the studies of Valdivia pottery discovered in the coastal part of Ecuador. It was supposed that the bearers of this culture had made a trans-Pacific journey from the Japanese archipelago to South America. The hypothesis split the scientific community into its violent opponents and its supporters, and has been a topic of active discussion for several decades. The authors of this paper directly participate in the archaeological research aiming to solve the riddle of the origin of pottery in the New World

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2014

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