The Persistence Of Prehispanic Chiefdoms On The Río Daule, Coastal Ecuador

Resumen del Libro

Regional survey and excavations delineate a sequence of social change from 3000 B.C. to the Spanish Conquest on the southern coast of Ecuador. A study of the religious, economic, and military sources of chiefly power in a region dependent on extensive ridged-field agriculture. Complete text in English and Spanish.