“Tropical Package”: Peculiarities of the Lithic Industries of the Most Ancient Cultures, Coastal Ecuador, Pacifi c Basin
“Tropical Package”: Peculiarities of the Lithic Industries of the Most Ancient Cultures, Coastal Ecuador, Pacifi c Basin
A.V. Tabarev and Y. Kanomata.
The article is devoted to the lithic industries of the most ancient cultures on the Pacifi c coast of Ecuador – preceramic Las Vegas culture (10,840–6600 BP) and early pottery culture (5500–3500 BP). The original model of the “Tropical package” for the transitional period from hunter-gatherers to early agriculturalists is proposed on the basis of techno-typological and use-wear analysis.
