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Ridged Fields in the Rio Guayas Valley, Ecuador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James J. Parsons
James J. Parsons*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California
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Abstract

Aerial 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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American Antiquity , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 1969 , pp. 76 - 80
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1969

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