Compton's Atlas of the Ancient World/Compton's Atlas of the Ancient World.iso/pc/media/sa/am/iw/saamiw10.cap

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8    0    A flat pottery dish (griddle) for cooking bread made of bitter manioc flour and a vat for brewing sweet manioc beer.
5    0    A wooden board set with tiny stone chips, used for grating manioc.
6    0    Developing styles of pottery: an early zoned hachure decorated bowl and an 'adorno'.
10    0    An early pottery figurine of a woman, from Valdivia, Ecuador.
13    0    A spondylus shell, highly prized in ancient South America.  Some groups considered them to be the food of the gods.
11    0    A comparison between Jomon and Valdivia sherds.  Despite their superficial similarity, a link between them is unlikely.
2    0    Aerial view of the ridges remaining from ancient raised fields in the Llanos de Mojos region.
3    0    Incised and polychrome painted pottery from Marajo, including a pubic cover.
4    0    A bearded pottery figurine from a burial at the terra preta villa of Corozal.
1    0    A metate or saddle quern (grindstone) used for grinding maize.  It has been carved in the form of a jaguar.
12    0    An urn used for burial, in the form of a person.  From Lago Agrio in Ecuador.
9    0    A Tairona gold pendant in the form of a person wearing an elaborate headers and a mask.
7    0    A tomb built of massive stones at San Agustin, and a figurine typical of the Jama Coaque group on the Ecuador coast.