This museum is very interesting for understanding pre-Columbian cultures earliest in the middle area of the America continent. are very well represented the cultures of the Pre-Classic period (Valdivia ,Chorrera and Machalilla) were the most important here is that since Neolithic civilization diffused to other parts of the America continent.
Here I show some Venus of Valdivia Ceramic figurines are a very primitive, these figures as in Europe and the East, representing the goddess of fertility and were buried in the soil for the crops were abundant.
Valdivia culture also made the ceramic potterys , these containers were made with the technique of clay cord (a cord clay is made of make it look like a bowl and then spread the mud and crushed to smooth the vessel finally .. profusely decorated and baked in wood ovens.
These decorated clay pots are very interesting and seem to be made a few years ago ... but are the first clay pots made in the Americas.
Vessel of the Valdivia Culture 3800B.C/1600B.C
Vessel of the Valdivia Culture 3800B.C/1600B.C
Also made of polished stone artifacts zoomorphic shapes. These are the ancestors of the representations of gods with zoomorphic form of the Mayas, Aztecs and other cultures that were influenced after thousands of years later by the descendants of the Valdivia.
Are represented the most common and feared animals in the area 6000 years ago .Here we see a bird in the area polished stone.but were also the Jaguars and other wildlife.
Polished stone Vessel of Valdivia Culture 3800B.C/1600B.C
THE MACHALILLA CULTURE.
The Valdivia culture lasted for more than 2500 years, diffused knowledge of Agriculture, and Livestock and elavoracion of ceramics throughout the Americas, also introduced the first forms of Urbanism, Religion and Social organization.
This culture was developed that became both a different culture, much more prosperous and complex ... Machalilla culture....flourished in the years to 1800B.C 1000B.C.
The Machalilla culture invent the bracket shaped handle in the pottery bottles , thousand years before they were made in other cultures such as the Chimu culture and Mayan culture. These pictures are for Machalilla culture artifacts.
......not to think little by the way ... is a tuber grater.
Machalilla Vessel 1800B.C 1000B.C.
Machalilla culture was actually just an attempt to improve the Valdivia culture artifacts and lasted only 800 years in the Pre-History of the Americas.
Besides inventing the deformation of the skull (aesthetic strong and afflicting motives) also traded their products and civilization radiated even more strongly ..... the towns grew and developed much more, the people of the Elite had the Alien head and seemed deformed ... had the cucumber-shaped head (hence were prettier than those Valdivia).
THE CORRERA CULTURE.
The Machalilla people only were inventing and testing artifacts and artistic styles that later explode in Chorrera culture and disseminated throughout the Americas (remember that the Maya also deformed the skulls, but only 1000 years later ).... Chorrera culture greatly improved in Vessels , their vessel are authentic works of art ,by themselves and I will show here only a few of the Museum.
CULTURES OF THE CLASSIC PERIOD INTERMEDIATE:
(The Cultures of Bahía, Guangala, Jama-Coaque and Tolita.)
600BC to 500AC.
The peoples of Correra culture spread throughout the area of the Americas intermediate and developed independently, creating chiefdoms that were led by different leaders.
At this time the cultures appear Bahia, Guangala, Jama-Coaque Tolita ... too many more that are not represented in this museum.These companies are much more advanced than previous practice Navigating the sea ... have sanctuaries near the beaches or islands next as the " Isla de la plata " in Ecuador which belonged to the culture Bahia .
Ceramic vessels represent mostly military leaders and shamans in a grotesque and sobre -natural faces .
CULTURES OF THE INTEGRATION PERIOD:
Manteño, Milagro and Atacames
500BC to 1500 A C
These cultures were in fact a great confederation in his final days of existence.
The Manteños were the largest tribe, developed and dangerous in the area, dominated the southern shores of the Pacific while the Incas conquered the nearby mountains, the city was very big 3500 hectares (bigger than Machu Pichu) ... the actual name is "Cerro de Jaboncillo" not excavated in the moment.
Manteño culture 500A.C to 1500 A.C
Milagro-Quevedo culture 500A.C to 1500 A.C
Milagro-Quevedo culture 500A.C to 1500 A.C
One day , the sailors of Manteña culture as each day went to trade in their boats along the shores of the Pacific Ocean , and inevitably what happened had to happen, were found at sea with a boat higher, longer and more dangerous. ....... It was a Spanish vessel.
It was the end of the Pre-history in these lands and an evolutionary process of more than 5000 years and the beginning of a new story filled with injustice ....but also advances social, technical and religious.
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