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Additional Ronquin Sites in the Middle Orinoco Valley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Carroll L. Riley  and
Charles W. Olvey
Carroll L. Riley
Affiliation:
Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondale, Ill.
Charles W. Olvey
Affiliation:
Caicara De Orinoco, Venezuela
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Abstract

The site of Pueblo Viejo extends knowledge of Ronquin-style ceramics farther east along the Orinoco than hitherto reported and provides new information on Ronquin settlement of the south bank of the Orinoco River. Laja de Manapiri adds another prehistoric settlement to the relatively thick cluster in the Caicara-Parmana area. Both sites contain Late Ronquin ceramics in a variety of forms including vessels, adornos, and figurines. Early Ronquin material is found at Laja de Manapire and is probably present at Pueblo Viejo. The Middle Orinoco is important archaeologically because of the possibility that the Ronquin styles link the Antillean area and northern Venezuela with the Guianas and the Upper Orinoco-Amazon region.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , April 1960 , pp. 597 - 599
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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