Ridged Fields in the Rio Guayas Valley, Ecuador
- 20 January 1969
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 34 (1) , 76-80
- https://doi.org/10.2307/278317
Abstract
Aerial reconnaissance and photography have established the existence of extensive tracts of ridged fields and planting platforms (bancos), apparently of pre-Columbian origin, in the overflow lands behind the natural levees of the Rio Guayas immediately north and east of Guayaquil, Ecuador. These vestiges of an ancient, labor-intensive agricultural system are similar in character to others that have been described in Bolivia, Colombia, and Surinam.Keywords
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