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Marcos, Jorge G.

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Jorge G. Marcos was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on June 25, 1932, the elder of two children of banker Jorge Marcos Ycaza and Dolores Pino Ycaza. Archaeology had a presence from the very beginning within his family context, as his uncle Antonio Pino inherited a small collection of artifacts from Jorge’s maternal grandfather, José Gabriel Pino who accompanied the great German intellectual Otto Von Buchwald while exploring Puná Island off Guayaquil. Doña Dolores, Jorge Marcos’ mother, provided an ambiance for reading traditional literature that included themes on legends and indigenous traditions.

In high school, Marcos was a history student of Francisco Huerta Rendón, one of the founding fathers of modern archaeology in Ecuador and one of the initial contributors to the archaeology of Manabí region. Rendón would encourage Jorge by identifying and discussing certain artifacts from his family’s antiquities cabinet, such as spindle whorls as well as their...

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  • - 1988. Real Alto: La historia de un centro ceremonial Valdivia (Biblioteca Ecuatoriana de Arqueología 4 y 5). Guayaquil: Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral/Corporación Editora Nacional.

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  • - 2012. La Historia Prehispánica de los Pueblos Manteño Huancavilca de Chanduy. Quito: Universidad Internacional del Ecuador/Mengraf.

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  • Marcos, J.G., A. Álvarez & G. Bigazzi. 1988. El tráfico a distancia temprano entre la hoya de Quito y la península de Santa Elena: Las evidencias de Real Alto. Simposio ARQ-13, in F. Cardenas-Arroyo, T. Bray & C.K. Langebaek (ed.) Intercambio y comercio en los Andes: La interacción tierras altas-tierras bajas desde una perspectiva arqueológica y etnohistórica. Bogotá: Cuarenta y noveno Congreso Internacional de Americanistas.

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Further Reading

  • Marcos, J.G. 1987. Los campos elevados de la Cuenca del Guayas, Ecuador: El proyecto Peñon del Río, in W. Denevan, K. Mathewson & G. Knapp (ed.) Pre-Hispanic agricultural fields in the Andean region (BAR International series 359 (II)): 217–24. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

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  • - 1993. La arqueología como ciencia histórica y la problemática de la arqueología ecuatorial: Los agro-alfareros Valdivia de Real Alto, en el antiguo Ecuador, un modelo para la “revolución neolítica en el Nuevo Mundo. Gaceta Arqueológica Andina 7: 23.

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  • - 1995. El mullo y el pututo: La articulación de la ideología y el tráfico a larga distancia en el formación del estado Huancavilca, in A. Álvarez, S. G. Álvarez, C. Fauría & J.G. Marcos (ed.) Primer encuentro de investigadores de la costa ecuatoriana en Europa: 97–142. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala.

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  • Pérez Pimentel, R. 2013. Historiador y biógrafo del Ecuador. Available at: http://www.diccionariobiograficoecuador.com/ (accessed 20 March 2013).

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  1. Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo, Manabí, Ecuador

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Ortiz-Aguilú, J.J. (2014). Marcos, Jorge G.. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2468

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