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New Data on the Antiquity of Polychrome Painting from Venezuela

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alberta Zucchi
Alberta Zucchi*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Antropología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientfficas (IVIC), Caracas
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Abstract

The existence of a new early tradition of polychrome painting (Caño del Oso) has been revealed through recent archaeological excavations in the western Venezuelan Llanos. This tradition seems to be much older than Tocuyano, which up to the present yielded the oldest absolute dates not only for Venezuela, but also for the Caribbean, Central America, and Mesoamerica. The chronological position of the Cano del Oso polychrome pottery, its characteristics, and the lack of stylistic relationships with Tocuyano, enabled the formulation of 2 hypotheses regarding the place of origin of the technique: Venezuela or Colombia. Likewise it permitted the assumption that within Venezuela, polychrome painting spread from one local group to another independently from other ceramic traits.

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American Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 439 - 446
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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