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| With a length extending approximately between 1,200 and 500 BC, Chorrera culture had its original nucleus the current geographical province of Los Rios, CV Site, located on the east bank of the river Babahoyo place to , in the year of 1954, archaeologists Estrada, Evans and Meggers, with the valuable information provided by Francisco Huerta Rendon, conducted the first systematic studies and their reports disclosed the important archaeological discovery. Human representation is present in a variety of figures, some of which reach up to 40 cm. high, worked through the union of two halves on the front was generally performed in a mold. Their heads have a headdress decorated large helmet-shaped, and their faces are prominent and slanted eyes. For its rich artistic expression, represented especially in ceramic-one can say that the Chorrera culture forms the highlight of aesthetics and art in the Late Formative Period. It is believed that the art of CV was widespread and influence in other regions of the New World, for its high aesthetic and technical development was, without doubt, the result of the great ceramic tradition that preceded cultures, ie Valdivia, Machalilla, and in the high Andes, Cerro Narrío. |
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