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Evidencias líticas de los procesos de apropiación y procesamiento en la actividad de subsistencia de la cultura Atacames, Asmeraldas, Ecuador

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Iglesias Aliaga, José Ramón, Gutiérrez Usillos, Andrés·1998·El área septentrional andina

Abstract

Durante el Período de Integración en la Costa Norte del Ecuador, las principales actividades de subsistencia fueron la agricultura del maíz y la pesca. El análisis que proponemos de los diferentes artefactos líticos recuperados en el yacimiento de Atacames complementa los estudios de subsistencia, y nos permite establecer asociaciones funcionales y tipológicas que evidencian el proceso de producción y apropiación.

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This chapter classifies the lithic artifacts recovered from the Atacames site (Esmeraldas, Ecuador) to reconstruct subsistence activities—fishing and maize agriculture—during the Integration Period. Morphological and functional analysis of net weights, grinding tools, and farming implements is combined with ethnohistoric and zooarchaeological data to infer fishing techniques and a shift toward maize intensification in Atacames Tardío.

Key findings

  • Net weights (Tipo 2) are by far the most abundant lithic class, with 151 specimens counted; two size groups are distinguished—small weights of 17–100 g (3.5–7 cm) and larger ones up to 700 g—interpreted as atarraya/esparavel versus chinchorro, jábega, and trasmayo gear.
  • Three diving weights are identified, two around 1500 g and one around 900 g, linked to Spondylus/Pinctada mazatlánica collection; four functional weight categories are proposed (hook weights, net weights, diving weights, discoidal perforated weights).
  • Grinding and farming assemblage: 23 mano de metate fragments, 34 metate fragments, 3 complete stone machacadores, 1 mortero, hachas (classified by talón and bisel), and a single azada; manos de metate are divided into six morphological types (ovoidales, elípticas, circulares, rectangulares, trapezoidales, plano-convexas).
  • Stratigraphic distribution in Tola 69 shows scarce agricultural tools in Atacames Temprano (700–1100 d.C.) with proportionally abundant net weights, versus an increase and diversification of grinding/farming tools in Atacames Tardío (1100–1526 d.C.), interpreted as intensification of maize agriculture without a marked decline in fishing; among 14,210 fish remains analyzed by Guinea, bagres (Ariidae) dominate.

Methods

  • Morphological and functional classification of lithic artifacts recovered by the Misión Arqueológica Española in the 1970s at Atacames, Balao, and Tonsupa, with the bulk of material from Atacames (127 ha, 65 habitation mounds).
  • Artifacts were grouped by form, size, and weight (e.g., weight ranges used to separate net-weight subtypes) and by inferred use-wear (pulido, picoteado, huellas de fricción, muescas, escotaduras).
  • Interpretation combined these lithic data with ethnohistoric sources (16th-century chroniclers, Chachi and other ethnographic parallels) and previously published zooarchaeological analyses.

Limitations

  • The paper states that only part of the site was excavated and not all net weights were collected (footnote 1), so counts are partial.
  • The authors state that no net mesh remains were recovered at Atacames, so net types were inferred indirectly from weights; the function of the discoidal perforated weights is explicitly presented as a hypothesis (nasas/trampas), and no hooks were recovered except two copper specimens.
  • Evident from the text: the agricultural-tool sample is small (e.g., a single azada, one mortero), and the two-phase chronological reading rests heavily on the Tola 69 sequence with an intermediate gap (levels 12–17) yielding no agricultural lithics.

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    La presencia o ausencia de artefactos líticos recuperados refleja las prácticas de subsistencia y la dieta de la población.

    “En este trabajo hemos procurado establecer una clasificación de los artefactos líticos recuperados en Atacames, relacionados con la subsistencia”
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    La morfología y el tamaño/peso de las pesas de red permiten inferir los tipos de artes de pesca utilizados.

    “hemos conjugado los datos etnohistóricos y zooarqueológicos con la morfología y el criterio del tamaño/peso de las pesas de red para establecer varios tipos de artes de la pesca”
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    La siembra del maíz no precisa más que de la utilización del palo cavador.

    “La siembra del maíz no precisa más que de la utilización del palo cavador”
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    El atún es un pez migratorio.

    “Por otro lado, el atún es un pez migratorio”
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    Las redes de arrastre como el chinchorro son de utilización comunal y necesitan la participación de varios pescadores trabajando conjuntamente.

    “Las redes de arrastre, como el Chinchorro, son de utilización comunal, y necesitan la participación de varios pescadores trabajando conjuntamente.”
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    Las hachas de piedra se utilizaban principalmente para actividades agrícolas como desmonte, tala, movimiento de tierra y trabajo sobre madera.

    “Las hachas se utilizaban principalmente para actividades vinculadas a labores agrícolas puesto que eran imprescindibles para el desmonte, la tala de árboles, el movimiento de tierra, y el trabajo sobre madera.”
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  1. Guinea, Mercedes, éd. El área septentrional andina. Lima: Institut français d’études andines, Centro Cultural Abya-Yala, 1998. doi:10.4000/books.ifea.3351. · DOI
  2. Guinea, Mercedes, éditeur. El área septentrional andina. Institut français d’études andines, Centro Cultural Abya-Yala, 1998, https://doi.org/10.4000/books.ifea.3351. · DOI

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Authors
Iglesias Aliaga, J. R., & Gutiérrez Usillos, A.
Venue
El área septentrional andina
Published
1998
Pages
111-156
OpenAlex
W2603146622
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book chapter
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es
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeological and Geological Studies
Keywords
lithic artifacts, subsistence, technology appropriation, lithic typology, functional association, maize agriculture, fishing, prehistoric settlement

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