Inhaltsangabe:
  • Geographical and ecological context
  • The first inhabitants : Pre-ceramic period (8,000-3,500 B.C.)
  • Early agriculture and pottery making : Formative period (3, 500-300 B.C.)
  • Regional chiefdoms : Regional development period (300 B.C.-800 A.D.)
  • Confederations and complex societies : Integration period (800-1535 A.D.)
  • Archaeological investigations
  • Agriculture : subsistence and agricultural evolution in ancient Ecuador
  • Vulcanism and archaeology in Northern Manabi
  • Ceramics
  • Commerce
  • Navigation.