The San Pablo Corn Kernel and Its Friends: There is evidence for intensive maize agriculture in the Early Formative stage of Ecuador.

Abstract:

It is generally assumed by students of New World agricultural systems that agriculture first achieved a high level of productivity in Mesoamerica and the Central Andes, the two regions ultimately to attain high civilization. Research programs directed toward the problems of agricultural origins have been concentrated in those zones (1). Certain evidence, however, does not fit comfortably with such general assumptions. Pottery of more than rudimentary competence was widespread in the moist tropical zones of northern South America before 2000 BC, far earlier than it appeared in either Mesoamerica or Peru. This pottery occurs in archeological contexts that indicate large populations and stable settlement (2). It has been suggested that the economic basis of these earlier ceramic-using populations was maritimeoriented and it has even been hypothesized that the precocious appearance of pottery was due to early …

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1977

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