Sarah Rowe

• PhD, Anthropology, University of Illinois
• Professor (Associate) at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Burial 10 is a unique Manteño (AD 650–1532) burial from Buen Suceso, Ecuador, dating between AD 771 and 953. This burial included the remains of a young female, pregnant at the time of death and buried with an elaborate array of goods, including anachronistic spondylus ornaments, green stones, and shell eye coverings. Perimortem trauma, including a...

Humans have a long history of transporting and trading plants, contributing to the evolution of domesticated plants. Theobroma cacao originated in the Neotropics from South America. However, little is known about its domestication and use in these regions. In this study, ceramic residues from a large sample of pre-Columbian cultures from South and...

New radiocarbon dates and excavations show that Buen Suceso (OSE-M-2M-4) in Santa Elena, Ecuador, was occupied between 3700 and 1425 BC. These dates demonstrate that Buen Suceso is a rare multicomponent Valdivia site and one of the longer-occupied Valdivia sites investigated to date.

Since the early 20th century when the anarchist geographer Kropotkin used mutual aid and cooperation to challenge the social Darwinist view of community as a staging ground for fierce interpersonal competition, social scientists have approached community as a way to organize groups outside of the restrictions and inequalities that can emerge with t...

Buen Suceso is an excavation a few kilometers outside the Comuna Dos Mangas in Ecuador, occupied during the period known as Late Valdivia sometime between 2100-1800 BC. Early Valdivia people were some of the earliest users of ceramics in the New World, yet they utilized a lithic technology that was little changed from their hunting and gathering pr...

Previous research of prehispanic coastal Ecuador has argued for the development of social hierarchies during the Late Valdivia period (2400–1800 BCE), based on changing regional settlement patterns, increased long-distance exchange, and increasing intra-site differentiation. Recent investigations at Valdivia sites have highlighted the diversity of...

Virtual Valdivia is home to an online database of archaeological ceramics from the Valdivia culture of coastal Ecuador. The Virtual Valdivia database includes object record data for hundreds of ceramic vessels to facilitate inter-site analysis by archaeologists around the world.

The emphasis of the JFA on field methods resonates strongly with current disciplinary interest in multivocality and participatory research. In this new epistemology of inclusiveness, communities play an active role in the production of archaeological knowledge as well as in the conservation of cultural heritage. From the perspective of archaeologis...

The challenges of building research partnerships around community mapping are critically reviewed in reference to the politics of heritage and identity among Indigenous Maya communities in highland Guatemala. This paper discusses how the goals and interests of archaeologists meshed with those of indigenous mappers in five communities that chose to...

Formal and design analysis of ceramics recovered from survey contexts at the late prehispanic Manteño (A.D. 800-1532) site of Agua Blanca, Ecuador are used to address suspected ethnic/regional differences during this period. Additionally, a standardized methodology for ceramic analysis from this period is presented.

Thesis (B.A.)--Drew University, 2003. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (7 unnumbered leaves at end).