Huayrapungo, desde el punto de vista etnográfico y arqueológico

Abstract

The Huayrapungo community faces a process of acculturation due to the globalization and social phenomena, one of these common problems is the migration in the Austro Ecuadorian. This has being an irreversible problem of the community under study, clearly visible in the loss of traditional-cultural characteristics. Therefore we attempt to make a proper description of the material culture and heritage through an ethnographic and archaeological community. The Ethnographic data which was collected through direct observation and interviews during coexistence with people, shows that despite the great changes in the identity of huayrapungo, still remain traditional features in different aspects such as clothing, food, parties, oral tradition, worldview. In the archaeological study executed by exploration, excavation and ceramic analysis were identified two archaeological sites with the name of Cerro Paccha and Cruzpata. They are located adjacent to the archaeological sites of Bayopungo de Amanta. The Ceramic fragments recovered in Paccha were subjected to analysis to establish nine types of closed containers and ten open containers, all of them are Cashaloma (Integration Period 500 d. C. 1500. C.).