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Review of the Early Preceramic Complexes of the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Karen E. Stothert*
Affiliation:
Division of Social Sciences, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX 78285

Abstract

Of the four late Pleistocene and early post-Pleistocene lithic complexes defined by Edward P. Lanning, only one, the Las Vegas complex, is supported by existing evidence from the Santa Elena Peninsula of southwest Ecuador. The Achallan culture, previously defined by Stothert and assigned to the post-Las Vegas period, is now unsupported by satisfactory evidence.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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