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Some Unusual Ceramics from Esmeraldas, Ecuador*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

John M. Corbett
John M. Corbett*
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National Park Service, Washington, D.C.
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In 1940, while on a commission for the Ecuadorian Government to the site of La Tolita in the province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, the author had an opportunity to examine and photograph a few specimens in the collection of Sr. Yannuzzelli. Sr. Yannuzzelli maintained a ranch at the archaeological site of La Tolita which is located a few miles up the Rio Santiago from the coastal town of Limones and is not far from the Colombian border. Several large flat top mounds (Fig. 56, 1) and about 25 increasingly smaller ones comprise the present site. It had been visited about 30 years previously by both Uhle and Saville, but neither one conducted adequate excavations there. It is a favorite site for local inhabitants to pan gold, and in 1940, Sr. Yannuzzelli was actually engaged in carrying out extensive, large scale, placer mining operations within the archaeological zone.

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American Antiquity , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , October 1953 , pp. 145 - 152
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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The author wishes to express his appreciation to Matthew W. Stirling, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, who made many suggestions regarding this paper and to the late Edgar L. Hewett of the School of American Research who, by the grant of a fellowship, first made it possible for the author to go to Ecuador.

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