At that time little professional archaeological work had been done in the region and most of that involved primarily surveys and/or limited excavations (Bedoya, Collier and Murra, Verneau and Rivet, and Uhle). Since then, however, more extensive research has been undertaken by various archaeologists (Boynter, Carmichael, Bray and Erikson, Leonard, Ogburn, Ogburn and Bravo, Rehren & Temme, Temme and Villón).
A bibliography for these pages is provided below
MAPA DE SITIOS ARQUEOLOGICOS / ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE MAP
CERAMICA PREHISTORICA / PREHISTORIC CERAMICS
TIESTOS IMPRESOS CON TEJIDOS / FABRIC IMPRESSED SHERDS
OBJETOS DE PIEDRA PULIDA / POLISHED STONE ARTIFACTS
TERRAZAS
Y CAMELLONES / TERRACES AND RIDGED FIELDS
LOS INCAS EN LA REGIÓN DE SARAGURO / THE INCAS IN THE SARAGURO REGION
PIEDRAS INCAICAS DE CUZCO EN SARAGURO / INCA STONES FROM CUZCO IN SARAGURO
NUEVO/NEW 2004
LA UNIÓN-CHAMICAL STRUCTURE
For an excellent web site on the archaeology of Saraguro during Inca times see Dennis Ogburn's THE INCA OCCUPATION OF SARAGURO (in English) or Investigación de las Estrategías Incaicos de Conquistar y Controlar en la Región de Saraguro, Ecuador (en español). NOTE (January 2003): unfortunately these sites are not currently available. When web material from Dennis Ogburn does become available it will be posted here.
Belote, James
1984 CHANGING ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES AMONG THE SARAGUROS OF SOUTHERN ECUADOR. (Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.) [* Version español:
1998 LOS SARAGUROS DEL SUR DEL ECUADOR. Quito: ABYA-YALA *].
Belote, Jim, & Linda Belote
1972 Tiestos Impresos con Tejido del Sur de la Sierra Ecuatoriana. Informe presentado
al Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia/Museo Arqueológico
del Banco Central, Quito.
Belote, Jim, & Linda Belote
1997 Cañaris, Paltas and Saraguros: Toponyms and Ethnic Boundaries in
Southern Ecuador (2nd edition, Ms. University of Minnesota Duluth). (Revised
and expanded version of a paper presented at the 24th Annual Midwest Conference
on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Beloit College, 1996.)
See also Non-Imperial Toponymic Element Distribution
in the Ecuadorian Highlands
Bennett, Wendell C.
1939, ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NORTH COAST OF PERU, Anthropological Papers, American
Museum of Natural History, Vol. 37;
Bennett, Wendell C.
1946 EXCAVATIONS IN THE CUENCA REGION, ECUADOR. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Boynter, Ran
1993 Putushío, Ecuador: Analysis of ceramics with textile impressions
provides information on cultural continuity. BACKDIRT (Newsletter of the Institute
of Archaeology, UCLA), Fall 1993. p. 8.
Bushnell, G. H. S.
1951 ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SANTA ELENA PENINSULA IN SOUTH-WEST ECUADOR, London,
Cambridge University Press.
Carmichael, Elizabeth, Warwick Bray & John Erikson
1979 Informe Preliminar de las Investigaciones Arqueológicas en el Area
de Minas, Ró Jubones, Ecuador. REVISTA DE ANTROPOLOGIA (Cuenca) 6:130-144.
Collier, Donald, & John Murra
1943 SURVEY AND EXCAVATIONS IN SOUTHERN ECUADOR. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural
History Anthropological Series, Vol. 35 [* version español: 1982 RECONOCIMIENTO
Y EXCAVACIONES EN EL SUR ANDINO DEL ECUADOR. Cuenca: Centro de Estudios Históricos
y Geográficos de Cuenca *].
Estrada, Emilio, Betty Meggers and Clifford Evans
1964 THE JAMBELÍ CULTURE OF SOUTH COASTAL ECUADOR. Proceedings of the
United States National Museum 115 (3492). Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
Fresco, Antonio
1983 La Red Vial en la Sierra Sur del Ecuador: Algunos Datos para Su Estudio.
CULTURA, REVISTA DEL BANCO CENTRAL, Vol. 5, Numero 15.
Guffroy, J.
1980 INVESTIGACIONES ARQUEOLÓGICAS EN EL SUR DE LA PROVINCIA DE LOJA.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador.
Hyslop, John
1992 QHAPAQÑAN: EL SISTEMA VIAL INKAICO. Lima: Instituto Andino de Estudios
Arqueológicos.
Lanning, Edward
1963 A CERAMIC SEQUENCE FOR THE PIURA AND CHIRA COAST. Berkeley: University
of California Press.
León C., Elisa Emérita
1996 Ciudadela. IDENTIDAD, Año 1, #1 (Instituto de Civilización
Andina INKA [Serie: Miscelánea Saraguro: Problemas de Identidad]):102-103.
Leonard, Kevin
1993 Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Province of Loja, Ecuador, The 1992
CEDIC-CESO Project. (Ms., Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary's University,
Halifax.)
Marcos, Jorge
1988 REAL ALTO: LA HISTORÍA DE UN CENTRO CEREMONIAL VALDIVIA (Segunda
Parte), Quito, Corporación Editora Nacional, pp. 302-303.
Ogburn, Dennis E., & Elizabeth Bravo
1995 Informe Preliminar de la Investigación Arqueologica de Saraguro
1994-1995. Ms.
Ogburn, Dennis E.
1996 Incas and Mitimaes in Saraguro, Ecuador. Draft of a paper presented at
the Institute of Andean Studies, January 1996.
Ogburn, Dennis E.
2001 THE INCA OCCUPATION AND FORCED RESETTLEMENT IN SARAGURO, ECUADOR (Ph.D.
dissertation, Universityof California at Santa Barbara)
Ogburn, Dennis E.
2002 Investigación de la procedencia de piedras incaicas ubicadas en
la zona de Paquishapa, Cantón de Saraguro, Provincia de Loja, Ecuador.
Report on file with the Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural, Quito, Ecuador
Ogburn, Dennis E.
2004 Power in Stone: The Long-Distance Movement of Building Blocks in the Inca
Empire. ETHNOHISTORY 51(1): 101-135
Rehren, Thilo, & Mathilde Temme Stothert, Karen, Kathleen Epstein, Thomas Cummins
and Ana Freire Temme, Mathilde Uhle, Max Verneau, R. y Paul Rivet
1992 Pre-Columbian Gold Processing at Putushio, South Ecuador: The Archaeometallurgical
Evidence. In ARCHAEOMETRY OF PRE-COLUMBIAN SITES AND ARTIFACTS, David A.
Scott & Pieter Meyers, eds. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute,
pp. 267-284.
1990 Primer Informe del Estudio de los Tejidos Prehistoricos Utilizados en la
Fabricación de Figurinas de la Costa Ecuatoriana, BOLETÍN ARQUEOLÓGICO
2, Diciembre, pp. 29-36.
1982 Excavaciones en el Sitio Precerámico de Cubilán (Ecuador).
MISCELANEA ANTROPOLOGICA ECUATORIANA II (Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador,
Guayaquil), pp. 135-164.
1923 LAS RUINAS DE TOMEBAMBA. Quito: Julio Sáenz Rebolledo.
1912 ETHNOGRAFIE ANCIENNE DE L'EQUATEUR. Paris: Ministere de l'Instruction Publique.
Villón, Jhonny
1996 La Cerámica de la Parroquia de San Lucas, Provincia de Loja; Primera
Parte: inventario de formas y aspectos técnicoformales. IDENTIDAD, Año
1, #1 (Instituto de Civilización Andina INKA [Serie: Miscelánea
Saraguro: Problemas de Identidad]):40-52.
Fuente del deseño del fondo: faja
de Saraguro / Background design source: Saraguro woven belt