San Isidro — Muisne? Actually Cerro Jaboncillo — Manteño City
Integration (800–1532 CE)·Manteño (Manta) culture·🇪🇨 Manabí Province, Ecuador
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About San Isidro — Muisne? Actually Cerro Jaboncillo — Manteño City
San Isidro — Muisne? Actually Cerro Jaboncillo — Manteño City in Manabí Province, Ecuador is a Integration (800–1532 CE) ancient-city attributed to Manteño (Manta) culture. Hilltop city 3500 ha with 40+ stone structures, chairs (sillas manteñas) and trade Spondylus workshops. Jaboncillo hilltop 640 m with T-shaped stone seats for chiefs, Spondylus workshop and reservoirs.
Why it mattersType-site for highland Manteño (Manta) culture occupation
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Culture chronology refinement
- 02Imperial administration model
Theories
- 01Defensive puna adaptation
- 02Wari imperial expansion
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 800 CE
- Period
- Integration (800–1532 CE)
- Culture
- Manteño (Manta) culture
- Purpose
- Hilltop city 3500 ha with 40+ stone structures, chairs (sillas manteñas) and trade Spondylus workshops
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 800 CE
Initial construction
c. 1960 CE
Systematic archaeological expedition
On the ground
Structures & features
1.0800° S · 80.5200° W · 640 m · 4 mapped features
- San Isidro — Muisne? Actually Cerro Jaboncillo — Manteño City — Plaza and Platform CoreplazaCentral plaza and platform mound1.0798° S · 80.5199° W
- San Isidro — Muisne? Actually Cerro Jaboncillo — Manteño City — Residential SectorresidentialDomestic sector1.0802° S · 80.5198° W
- San Isidro — Muisne? Actually Cerro Jaboncillo — Manteño City — Cemetery ExtensionnecropolisAssociated shaft or chamber cemetery1.0796° S · 80.5202° W
- San Isidro — Muisne? Actually Cerro Jaboncillo — Manteño City — Quarry Source OutcropquarryStone source outcrop1.0804° S · 80.5202° W
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