Northern Andean Worlds: Highlands, Valleys, and Pacific Connections
Pacific and eastern-foothill contexts (orientation only) · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Loma Alta: plant-food evidence and returning collections

Reviewed community and place names are preserved where supported; no otherwise unknown ancient self-designation is invented.

The residue study identifies maize in selected cooking and grinding contexts, while discussing the limits of direct dating and sample association. Architectural comparisons concern sampled domestic work, not an exact census or a uniform village plan everywhere.

Plant-food, household, and collection-history context Early Formative and later contexts; studied maize evidence approximately 5,300–4,960 calibrated BP Starch residues, grinding tools, cooking vessels, domestic architecture and curated excavation materials Santa Elena, Santa Elena, Ecuador (orientation only): approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting or travel permission is implied.
Resumen

Refugios, aldeas, paisajes y evidencias

Conexiones de tierras altas, valles, bosques y el Pacífico

Santa Elena, Santa Elena, Ecuador is a modern orientation, not an ancient capital or boundary. Food preparation and household organization do not identify one coast-wide government.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Food preparation and household organization do not identify one coast-wide government. Loma Alta crop residues do not establish a single origin of farming; reservoir effects and sampling limit dates, and returning collections do not imply permission for unrestricted reuse.

Transformación imperial y colonial, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority; this atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent, recognition or membership. Archaeological materials do not identify every speaker; living communities' public names and language authority cannot be inferred from tool or pottery styles. Events after 1600 CE and modern research, conservation and stewardship are dated separately from the main historical context.

Food-processing evidence The residue study identifies maize in selected cooking and grinding contexts, while discussing the limits of direct dating and sample association.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Household models Architectural comparisons concern sampled domestic work, not an exact census or a uniform village plan everywhere.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Collection return INPC records the 2020 return of Loma Alta research materials from Canada to Ecuador for further study.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Domestic activities

    Excavated house evidence supports questions about work and village organization.

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  2. Studied maize residues

    Directly dated residues support use in selected contexts; they are not the first maize anywhere.

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  3. Residue study

    The research team published plant-food and dating evidence.

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  4. Materials returned

    INPC records repatriation for research rather than a transfer of cultural authority to the Atlas.

    [S3]
Cultura e idioma

Prácticas alimentarias, hogares, agua, artesanía, trabajo y poder

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • Archaeological materials do not identify every speaker; living communities' public names and language authority cannot be inferred from tool or pottery styles.

Familia lingüística: Language, material classification, political allegiance, residence and living identity are distinct; this record does not classify every ancient speaker.

Research focus: Starch residues, grinding tools, cooking vessels, domestic architecture and curated excavation materials.

Food preparation and household organization do not identify one coast-wide government.

Loma Alta crop residues do not establish a single origin of farming; reservoir effects and sampling limit dates, and returning collections do not imply permission for unrestricted reuse.

No artifact, rock-art, sacred-site, burial or human-remains imagery or restricted knowledge is reproduced.

DNAGENICS provides AI-assisted, source-checked educational paraphrases. Cited authors, institutions and communities did not author or endorse this atlas. Public availability does not establish cultural consent or permission to reproduce objects, sacred knowledge or human remains. No imagery is reproduced. Specialist and community review is recommended; use the website contact channel for corrections, rights concerns or removal requests.

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Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

Prefer Indigenous governments, museums, heritage organizations, accountable field projects and public heritage institutions. Give source title, author or organization, date and stable link. Brief summaries are DNAGENICS AI-assisted interpretations, not author or community endorsement, reproduction permission or community review.

  1. C1

    Qué es la CONAIE?

    Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE) · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2014-07-19

  2. C2

    Encuentro de mayores, memoria hacia los 50 años del CRIC

    Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca (CRIC) · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2020-11-11

  3. C3

    Revisiting the lithic industries of El Abra sites (Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia, Northern South America). Implications for its significance and chronology

    Brunella Muttillo, Roberto Lleras Pérez, Ettore Rufo and Giuseppe Lembo; Quaternary International · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2021 volume; DOI registered 2020

  4. C4

    Directly dated starch residues document early formative maize (Zea mays L.) in tropical Ecuador

    Sonia Zarrillo and colleagues; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2008

  5. C5

    Regional Settlement Patterns in the Alto Magdalena: The San Agustín-Isnos Zone

    Robert D. Drennan, Víctor González Fernández and Carlos Augusto Sánchez; University of Pittsburgh, ICANH and Universidad de los Andes · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2018

  6. C6

    Malagana: guaquería vs arqueología

    Álvaro Botiva Contreras and Eduardo Forero Lloreda; Boletín Museo del Oro 31 · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Issue dated 1992; text includes 1993 investigation

  7. C7

    Estado de conservación del Complejo Arqueológico de Ingapirca

    INPC, PAQU research platform · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2020-08-26

  8. C8

    Laguna de la Ciudad: construcción de paisajes culturales en el norte de Esmeraldas

    Francisco Valdez, Julio Hurtado and Alexandra Yépez; STRATA, INPC · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2024

  9. S1

    Directly dated starch residues document early formative maize (Zea mays L.) in tropical Ecuador

    Sonia Zarrillo and colleagues; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2008

  10. S2

    Architecture of the Early Valdivia Village

    Jonathan E. Damp; American Antiquity · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 1984-07

  11. S3

    Piezas arqueológicas regresan al país desde Canadá para su investigación

    Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural del Ecuador (INPC) · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2020-06-05

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Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026

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