Richard Lunniss

Biographic Data

ID6049310
NAMERichard Lunniss
GIVEN NAMESRichard
FAMILY NAMELunniss
SIGNATURELUNNISS R
AFFILIATIONSUniversidad Técnica de Manabí
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS21
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Los incas en la isla de la Plata y cerro Jaboncillo

    Open AccessRichard Lunnis, Richard LunnissARTICLEAntropología Cuadernos de…2024

    Evidencia arqueológica recuperada hace más de un siglo y los resultados de investigaciones másrecientes sugieren que la isla de la Plata y cerro Jaboncillo, preeminentes lugares sagrados de lacosta central del Ecuador, fueron seleccionados por los incas como sitios claves para establecersu presencia en la región y definir sus relaciones con el pueblo nativo manteño. En la isla de laPlata, se han registrado entierros sacrificiales inca del tipo ca…

  • Investigation of Identity and Ontology at Salango, Ecuador (BCE 100-300 CE)

    Sara L Juengst, Richard M Lunni et al.ARTICLEBioarchaeology International2023

    Bioarchaeologists have increasingly investigated social identities of past peoples, engaging with theory from a variety of sources, including Indigenous perspectives. In this article, we discuss and compare successive Very Early Guangala (100 BCE–CE 1) and succeeding Early Guangala (CE 1–300) phase burials located near the north perimeter of Salango, a shoreline site and ritual sanctuary serving multiple communities of the central coast of Ecuado…

  • Morbidity and Mortality in Ancient Ecuador

    Open AccessD H Ubelaker, Richard M Lunni et al.ARTICLEChungara2023

    Archaeological excavations at Salango, on the central coast of Ecuador, have produced human skeletal material dating from ca. 1500 BC to AD 1531. The time range represented by the remains offers an extraordinary opportunity to examine temporal change in ancient coastal Ecuadorian patterns of morbidity and mortality. Statistics resulting from study of the skeletal material are shaped by sampling, site function, and other factors, but generally rev…

  • Late Formative Shamans of the Ecuadorian Coast

    Richard M Lunniss, Richard LunnissARTICLEÑawpa Pacha2021References: 33

    A Middle and Late Engoroy (600–100 BC) shamanic sanctuary at Salango, on Ecuador’s central coast, provides information at multiple interpretative levels on early north Andean ritual practices. Architectural settings included ceremonial floors, houses, and platforms. Two shamans were buried there, and their functions were understood to continue even after their death and burial. Shamanic identity was embodied in tusk-shaped pendants. There were si…

  • Manteño, Geography and Culture of

    Open AccessRichard M Lunni, Richard LunnissCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020

  • Unique Infant Mortuary Ritual at Salango, Ecuador, 100 BC

    Open AccessSara L Juengst, Richard M Lunni et al.ARTICLELatin American Antiquity2019Cited by: 1References: 19

    The human head was a potent symbol for many South American cultures. Isolated heads were often included in mortuary contexts, representing captured enemies, revered persons, and symbolic "seeds." At Salango, a ritual complex on the central coast of Ecuador, excavations revealed two burial mounds dated to approximately 100 BC. Among the 11 identified burials, two infants were interred with "helmets" made from the cranial vaults of other juveniles.…

  • Manteño, Geography and Culture of

    Open AccessRichard M Lunni, Richard LunnissCHAPTEREncyclopedia Of Global Archaeology2018

  • Pre-Hispanic Fishing Structures Preserved on the Central Coast of Ecuador

    Open AccessCristian M Favier Dubois, D Storchi Lobos et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maritime Archaeology2018References: 10

  • Coca ritual, aristocrats, and the landscape of power on the coast of Ecuador in the Early Regional Development period (100 BC–AD 300)

    Richard M Lunniss, Richard LunnissARTICLEÑawpa Pacha2017Cited by: 1References: 18

    Elaborate pottery figurines indicate that ritualized coca consumption was central to the function and identity of male aristocrats of coastal Ecuador during the Early Regional Development period (100 BC–AD 300). In parallel, lime residues, lime containers and lime dippers provide detail not only on the manufacture and circulation of ritual paraphernalia, but also on the symbolism and values attached to coca use. Drawing on evidence excavated at t…

  • Sea Fishing at Salango (Manabí Province, Ecuador) During the Middle Formative Machalilla Phase

    Open AccessP Béarez, Patrick Gay et al.ARTICLELatin American Antiquity2012Cited by: 16References: 22

    Formative Ecuadorian coastal societies possessed the technologies and skills necessary not only for fishing, but also for deep-sea navigation. Although marine shellfish are acknowledged as significant both for dietary and religious purposes, the importance of sea-fishing is rarely highlighted or explored. In order to help evaluate more fully the significance of the sea in the Ecuadorian Formative, this paper presents recently studied evidence, ex…

  • Los ancestros y el mito de emergencia

    Richard LunnissARTICLEÑawpa Pacha2011Cited by: 2References: 5

    Figurines de piedra principalmente en forma de colmillo caracterizan los sitios ceremoniales del Formativo Tardío de la costa sur de la Provincia de Manabí, Ecuador. El análisis contextual de ejemplos descubiertos emergiendo del piso alrede-dor de una plataforma funeraria del Engoroy Tardío en Salango indica que fueron elementos claves ahí en la realización ritual de un mito de origen ancestral. El uso diferencial de figurines es evidencia de acc…

  • The Past in the Present

    Open AccessDaniel E Bauer, Richard M Lunni et al.ARTICLEThe Latin Americanist2010Cited by: 1References: 8

  • Where the Land and the Ocean Meet

    Richard M Lunni, Richard LunnissCHAPTERPre-Columbian Landscapes of…2008

  • Salango

    Richard M Lunni, Richard Lunniss et al.CHAPTER2003