Cotocollao culture

Ceramic figures of the Cotocollao culture in the Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador (2015)

The Cotocollao Culture was a pre-Columbian culture of the Formative Period in the Sierra Ecuador near Quito . It existed from the 18th to the 4th century BC. Chr. And can be divided into four ceramic phases . Archaeological explorations by Villalba revealed 70 other sites in the long valley of Quito and those of Los Chillos and Tumbaco. The traces of settlement indicate agrarian subsistence farming based on the cultivation of maize , potatoes , tuberous wood sorrel , quinoa and Andean lupine . As Stein device was used, among other things obsidian . Whether and to what extent there were relationships between the settlements is not yet known. With the eruption of the Pululahua volcano , the Cotocollao culture went under.

Stylistic similarities in the design of the ceramics indicate that trade relations existed between the Cotocollao cultures in the Andes and the Machalilla culture on the Pacific coast .

Individual evidence

^ JA Zeidler: The Ecuadorian Formative . In: Helaine Silverman, William Isbell (Eds.): Handbook of South American Archeology . Springer, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-3877-5228-0 , pp. 471f.
^ JA Zeidler: The Ecuadorian Formative . In: Helaine Silverman, William Isbell (Eds.): Handbook of South American Archeology . Springer, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-3877-5228-0 , p. 467

[1] JA Zeidler: The Ecuadorian Formative . In: Helaine Silverman, William Isbell (Eds.): Handbook of South American Archeology . Springer, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-3877-5228-0 , pp. 471f.

[2] JA Zeidler: The Ecuadorian Formative . In: Helaine Silverman, William Isbell (Eds.): Handbook of South American Archeology . Springer, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-3877-5228-0 , p. 467