“TROPICAL PACKAGE”: PECULIARITIES OF THE LITHIC INDUSTRIES OF THE MOST ANCIENT CULTURES, COASTAL ECUADOR, PACIFIC BASIN

The article is devoted to the lithic industries of the most ancient cultures on the Pacific coast of Ecuador - preceramic Las Vegas culture (10,840-6600 BP) and early pottery culture (5500-3500 BP). The original model of the “Tropical package” for the transitional period from hunter-gatherers to early agriculturalists is proposed on the basis of techno-typological and use-wear analysis.