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AJA 70 groups. Elsewhere in Colombia, no evidence of pottery dates prior to about 600 B.c., when subsistence was based on cultivated plants. Subsequent cultural development produced regional complexes with distinctive pottery, art styles and burial patterns, but with two very late exceptions socio-political organization is not believed to have exceeded the chiefdom level. The Chibcha in the highlands and the Tairona on the Caribbean coast impressed the Spaniards with their population density and elaborate socio-political organization, but an empire of the order achieved in aboriginal Mexico or Peru did not arise in prehistoric Colomlbia. Reichel-Dolmatoff sees cultural development in Colombia as the product of heterogeneous environment and a succession of influences from Mesoamerica. The first reached the Caribbean coast about 500 B.C., creating the Momil culture and possibly bringing maize agriculture to the area as well as a number of distinctively Mesoamerican ceramic traits. The second is hypothesized to have arrived via the Pacific coast near the Ecuadorian border and penetrated eastward into the highlands, where it stimulated the development of the San Agustin culture, distin
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- Author
- Richard B. Woodbury; S. K. Lothrop
- Published
- 1966
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)