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The Manteño of the Cloud Forest: Settlement Patterns and Spatial Analysis of Manteño Stone Architecture in the Las Tusas River Valley in Manabí, Ecuador

The present study identifies settlement patterns of the Manteño culture within the cloud forest of
southern Manabí by surveying, recording and analyzing the stone architecture found within the drainage
basin of the Las Tusas River, Ecuador. The statistical methods used were: Triangulated Irregular Networks
or TIN (for topography interpretations), K-means (to determine natural groups for structures based on their
dimensions, shape, and wall thickness), Ripley’s K (to determine spatial nature of these groups) and Kernel
Density (to visualize their spatial organization). The cloud forest ecotone of southern Manabí was an
anthropogenic landscape during the late Integration period. The alluvial valleys of the upper Rio Blanco
drainage basin do not represent a hinterland or a periphery occupation but a series of Manteño nucleated
settlements raised on terraces and interconnected by strings of linear settlements and dispersed settlements
throughout the rugged terrain of this landscape. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:fau.edu/oai:fau.digital.flvc.org:fau_40806
ContributorsGarzón-Oechsle, Andrés E. (author), Brown, Clifford T. (Thesis advisor), Florida Atlantic University (Degree grantor), Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
PublisherFlorida Atlantic University
Source SetsFlorida Atlantic University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation, Text
Format432 p., application/pdf
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