The oldest American ceramics appeared about 6000 years ago in the tropical lowlands of the Intermediate and Amazon Area, and are generally associated with the beginnings of sedentary life and early agricultural experimentation. The villagers from Ecuador’s Valdivia culture, around 3300 BC, began to make domestic vessels imitating plant shapes and produced the continent’s first ceramic sculptures.
One thousand years later, their Machalilla and Chorrera heirs perfected this growing craft by innovating shapes and technology to achieve spectacular dominance and refinement in pottery arts.
Cántaro polícromo zoomorfo: serpiente
Materials: Ceramic
Preclásico Tardío 1800 - 300 a.C.
Measures: 160 mm de alto
Part Code: MCHAP 0409
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Materials: Ceramic
Preclásico Tardío 1000 - 300 a.C.
Measures: 200 mm de alto x 180 mm de ancho
Part Code: MCHAP 0091
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Botella silbato asa puente. Representación arquitectónica
Materials: Ceramic
Preclásico Tardío 1000 - 300 a.C.
Measures: 220 mm de alto x 290 mm de largo
Part Code: MCHAP 0042
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Materials: Ceramic
Preclásico Tardío 1000 - 300 a.C.
Measures: 82 mm de alto x 197 mm de largo x 140 mm de ancho
Part Code: MCHAP 0044
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Materials: Ceramic
Preclásico Tardío 1000- 300 a.C.
Measures: 140 mm de alto x 205 mm de largo x 117 mm de ancho
Part Code: MCHAP 0053
See the profile of this pieceMaterials: Ceramic
Preclásico Tardío 1000 - 300 a.C.
Measures: 200 mm de alto x 180 mm de ancho
Part Code: MCHAP 0091
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Materials: Ceramic
Desarrollos Regionales 1000- 300 a.C.
Measures: 193 mm de alto x 220 mm de largo x 182 mm de ancho
Part Code: MCHAP 0255
See the profile of this pieceCántaro polícromo zoomorfo: serpiente
Materials: Ceramic
Preclásico Tardío 1800 - 300 a.C.
Measures: 160 mm de alto
Part Code: MCHAP 0409
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Doble escudilla ictiomorfa: pez espada
Materials: Ceramic
Preclásico Tardío 1800- 300 a.C.
Measures: 52 mm de alto
Part Code: MCHAP 0966
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Materials: Ceramic
Desarrollos Regionales 1000- 300 a.C.
Measures: 220 mm de alto
Part Code: MCHAP 2077
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Cántaro antropomorfo masculino
Materials: Ceramic
Formativo Medio 2000- 1000 a.C.
Measures: 350mm de alto x 260mm de ancho
Part Code: MCHAP 0648
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