Anthropologists Claim That Ecuadorian Pottery Shows Transpacific Contact in 3000 b.c.e.
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science, Social Science
- Subcategories: Scientists, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, Latin American History
- Geographical Location: Ecuador
- Date: The early 1960’s
Article abstract: Anthropologists asserted that design similarities between five-thousand-year-old pottery from Ecuador and pottery of the same age from Japan show pre-Columbian contact between Asia and South America.
Summary of Event
Anthropologists agree that humanity had its origins in the Old World and migrated to the New World comparatively recently. While there is disagreement over the earliest date for humankind in the Americas, there is consensus that North and South America were populated by about 10,000 b.c.e. These early inhabitants were of...
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