Andean Past Volume 3 Article 12 1992 Evidence for Preceramic Houses and Household Organization in Western South America Michael A. Malpass Ithaca College,
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[email protected]. EVIDENCE FOR PRECERAMIC HOUSES AND HOUSEHOLD ORGANIZATION IN WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA Michael A. Malpass Ithaca College Karen E. Stothert Trinity University Introduction This paper summarizes information concerning preceramic houses known from excavated sites in Ecuador. Peru, and Chile (Figure 1), and it presents evidence for household organization during the Preceramic Period. The introduction reviews concepts important to the paper; the second section provides the data base from Ecuador, including a detailed report of an Early Preceramic house excavated by Stothert; the third and fourth sections provide discussions of the basic data from Peru and Chile; and finally the development of domestic architecture and community organization in the Preceramic Period is discussed and summarized. In an effort to illuminate preceramic society and culture, we seek to discover the nature of the household.