Living with The Ancestors at Salango, Coastal Ecuador: Regional Development Sanctuary (c. 300 BC AD 600)

Following on from the previous publications Cultural Identity, Transition, and Interaction at Salango, Coastal Ecuador (BAR S3109, 2022) and The Sequence of Late Formative Ceremonial Structures at Salango, Coastal Ecuador (BAR S3117, 2023), this book presents the first full account of Salango's unparalleled Regional Development sanctuary. Drawing on the results of extensive stratigraphic excavations initiated in 1982, it describes in detail the changing design and architectural components of the sanctuary and its varied human burials, ritual installations, and offerings through three cultural phases and eleven main construction episodes spanning 300 BC to AD 600. With abundant photographs of the excavations and the rich assemblage of pottery vessels and other artefacts recovered, mostly in colour, the archaeological data are woven into a narrative history of ancestors, place, and ritual that reflects events and processes operating across coastal Ecuador and beyond.