Bahía culture
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "redirect hatnote". Template:Infobox archaeological culture The Bahía culture (500 BCE–500 CE) was a pre-Columbian culture in Ecuador.[1]
Bahía culture originated in what is now the Manabí Province on the Pacific Coast, and spread to Bahía de Caráquez and to the Andean foothills. Their ceramic tradition is one of the first found north of the Andes.[2]
Chirije, a seaport, was a major Bahía archaeological site discovered by Emilio Estrada in the 1950s. Merchants traded finished goods and Spondylus princeps or red spiny oyster shells south to Chile and north as far as Mexico in exchange for precious materials such as copper and gold.[1]
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Big-nose figurines
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Neck rest
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Ear plug
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Sorcerer's cauldron
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Witch or shaman sculpture
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Notes
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- ↑ a b "Chirije-Ecuador."Script error: No such module "Category handler".[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (retrieved 3 May 2011)
- ↑ "La Bahia." History of Ecuador. (retrieved 3 May 2011)
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External links
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- Bahía (archaeological culture) artworks, National Museum of the American Indian