JAMBELI CULTURE — ESTRADA, MEGGERS, EVANS 



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Figure 18. — Atypical figurine head from 0-6, surface, with features suggestive of Bahia 



Phase influence. 



Three plain sherds from 0-3: Chiveria have been shaped into crude 

 disks with a diameter of 5-7 cm. and are biconically perforated 

 through the center. 



Pottery Types 



The description of the pottery of the Jambeli culture is based on the 

 analysis of 15,414 sherds from surface collections and stratigraphic 

 excavations (see Appendix, Table 1). Some of the sites produced 

 sherds with such badly eroded surfaces that it was possible only to 

 identify the ware as of the Jambeli type. Material of this kind, 

 however, was not used in compiling the pottery type descriptions. 



Very few complete vessels have been recovered, and the majority 

 of the vessel shapes have been reconstructed from rim profiles and 

 diagnostic body and base sherds. The drawings of reconstructed 

 vessel shapes are generalizations that do not show the alternative 

 base forms mentioned in the vessel shape descriptions. Terminology 

 for vessel shape description follows the definitions used for the Valdivia 

 culture (Evans, Meggers, and Estrada, 1959, pp. 26-68). Pottery 

 type descriptions are arranged in alphabetical order, with the Spanish 

 equivalent in parentheses for ease in cross-reference with previous 

 publications in Spanish. 



VESSEL FORM 



1. Rounded, Shallow to Deep Bowl (fig. 19, 1): 



Rim: Outsloping to nearly vertical and direct. Rina diameter varies from 



8-28 cm. 

 Lip: Rounded or slightly tapered. 

 Base: Rounded or slightly flattened. 



