Las Vegas culture (archaeology)

Large number of Archaic settlements

The Las Vegas culture was a pre-ceramic society that inhabited the Santa Elena Peninsula on the coast of present-day Ecuador between approximately 8000 and 4600 BCE. Named after the prominent Site No. 80 near the Las Vegas River, now within the city of Santa Elena, it represents one of the earliest sedentary adaptations to a complex coastal environment in South America. The culture is notable for its early experimentation with agriculture, including the domestication of squash, bottle gourd, and later maize, alongside a subsistence strategy based on hunting, fishing, and foraging.

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