Effigy : Extraordinarily Rare Machalilla Pottery Effigy of a Woman From Ecuador #372
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Effigy
372. Description: Extraordinarily Rare Machalilla Pottery Effigy of a Woman. Collected pacific coast of Ecuador. Dimensions: 1.75" tall x 1" wide. Excellent condition. All items are unconditionally guaranteed to be Authentic as described. For added security we offer a full money-back guarantee if a recognized authority disputes the authenticity of any object sold. The piece was obtained from the past Director of the Museo Municipal de Guayaquil who identified the piece as to Machalilla. Recent input from one of culturalpatina's followers suggests that this piece my be Guangala instead of Machalilla. Considering who gave me the piece, I have left her identification as is instead of changing it.
The Machalilla were a prehistoric people in Ecuador, in southern ManabÌ_ and the Santa Elena Peninsula. The dates when the culture thrived are uncertain, but are generally agreed to encompass 1500 BCE to 1100 BCE.[1]
Machalilla Culture
The Machalilla were an agricultural people who also pursued fishing, hunting and gathering. Like many prehistoric cultures of coastal Ecuador, the people practiced artificial cranial deformation by using stones to flatten and lengthen their skulls.[2]
Archaeologists focus on the unusual cemeteries of the Machalilla, in which bodies were settled beneath a ceramic turtle shell,[3] and on their ceramic work in general, which represented artistic and technological advances in the art.[4] The Machalilla are credited with adding to the ceramic bottle the stirrup spout, in which two spouts join together into one opening: an invention that would be prominent in northwest South American pottery for centuries.[1] Archaeologists have also excavated ceramic pots, pitchers, whistles, candlesticks and human figures from Machalilla digs.
The date range of the culture is obscured. It is sometimes listed as early as 1800 BCE and as late as 800 BCE.[3][4] One of the problems with determining the proper date range is the method of cultural termination. According to archaeologists Betty Meggers and Clifford Evans, the Machalilla culture was altered by Mesoamerican contact until it blended into the Chorrera culture.[5]
Universidad de Especialidades EspÌ_ritu Santo UEES in Guayaquil, Ecuador has a collection of Machalilla artifacts.
References[edit]
1.Timeline of Art History: South America, 2000-1000 b.c. Met. Accessed August 2, 2007
2. Ecuador/The Galapagos Background Lonely Planet Accessed August 2, 2007.
3. Exploring Ecuador: Machalilla Accessed August 2, 2007
4. Pre-Columbian Art Embassy of Ecuador in Washington DC. Accessed August 2, 2007.
5. Meggers, Betty J. and Clifford Evans. "The Machalilla Culture: An Early Formative Complex on the Ecuadorian Coast." American Antiquity, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Oct., 1962), pp. 186-192.
(Source: Wikipedia)
