Ridged Fields in the Rio Guayas Valley, Ecuador

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1969 Colombia English Publisher:Cambridge University Press (CUP)Journal:American Antiquity, volume 34, pages 76-80 (issn: 0002-7316, eissn: 2325-5064,

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Authors: Parsons, James J.;

doi: 10.2307/278317

Ridged Fields in the Rio Guayas Valley, Ecuador

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AbstractAerial reconnaissance and photography have established the existence of extensive tracts of ridged fields and planting platforms (bancos), apparently of pre-Columbian origin, in the overflow lands behind the natural levees of the Rio Guayas immediately north and east of Guayaquil, Ecuador. These vestiges of an ancient, labor-intensive agricultural system are similar in character to others that have been described in Bolivia, Colombia, and Surinam.

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Colombia

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Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
Colombia
University of California, Berkeley
United States
University of California, San Francisco
United States

Keywords

Agua en agricultura, Guayas (Río, Ecuador), Culturas precolombinas

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