Challuabamba (chī-wa-bamba)--now a developing suburb of Cuenca,
the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador--has been
known for a century as an ancient site that produced exceptionally
fine pottery in great quantities. Suspecting that Challuabamban
ceramics might provide a link between earlier, preceramic culture
and later, highly developed Formative period art, Terence Grieder
led an archaeological investigation of the site between 1995 and
2001. In this book, he and the team of art historians and
archaeologists who excavated at Challuabamba present their
findings, which establish the community's importance as a center in
a network of trade and artistic influence that extended to the
Amazon River basin and the Pacific Coast.
Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador presents an
extensive analysis of ceramics dating to 2100-1100 BC, along with
descriptions of stamps and seals, stone and shell artifacts,
burials and their offerings, human remains, and zooarchaeology.
Grieder and his coauthors demonstrate that the pottery of
Challuabamba fills a gap between early and late Formative styles
and also has a definite connection with later highland styles in
Peru. They draw on all the material remains to reconstruct the
first clear picture of Challuabamba's prehistory, including
agriculture and health, interregional contacts and exchange,
red-banded incised ware and ceramic production, and shamanism and
cosmology.
Because southern Ecuador has received relatively little
archaeological study, Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador
offers important baseline data for what promises to be a key sector
of the prehistoric Andean region.
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