Ecuador Culture History and Archaeology

American archaeologist Betty Meggers is probably best known for her extensive work conducted in association with her husband Clifford Evans in the South American continent.

The Chorrera culture is the name given to the Late Formative period in Ecuador's Andes and coastal areas

American archaeologist Deborah M. Pearsall has dedicated much of her professional life to the study of paleoethnobotany, specifically the examination of opal phytoliths in archaeological contexts.

Ecuador's topographic and political maps, from Matt Rosenberg.

Ecuador culture, history and politics, from the US Library of Congress.

American archaeologist Marshall H. Saville was the first curator of the Mexican and Central American Archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History

German archaeologist and linguist Max Uhle is often said to be the father of Andean archaeology.

The archaeological site of Real Alto is a Valdivia culture site, located on the Chanduy Valley less than 3 kilometers in from the coast of southwestern Ecuador.

Archaeology of the Saraguro region of Ecuador, including maps and results of a survey of the area, by Jim Belote and Linda Belote.

Valdivia culture is the name given by archaeologists to the beginnings of settlement life in Ecuador, South America, between about 3500-1500 BC

The Vegas site is located on the coast of Ecuador and is a semi-sedentary habitation site where fisher-hunter-gatherers lived between about 8000 and 6000 years ago.