What is Las Vegas culture?
'''Las Vegas culture''' is the name for a number of setltements on the coast of present-day [[Ecuador]]. These settlements were created between roughly 8000 and 4600 BCE. In total, there are 31 settlements. The people who lived there were [[hunter-gatherer]]s. They had also started [[agriculture]]. Bone points and a [[spatula]] have been discovered. They may have been used for making [[fishing net|net]]s or [[textile]]s, along with various tools and containers shaped of [[shell]]; wood, bamboo, reeds, and bark are also believed to have been used in the tool industry.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/latinamerica/html_eng/chapter12/chapter5.htm |title=Chapter 2: The Original Peopling of Latin America |accessdate=2007-05-16 |last=Bryan |first=Alan L. |date=2000|work=General History of Latin America | publisher=[[UNESCO]]}}</ref> No [[Mummification|mummies]] have been found on the coast of Ecuador. The Las Vegas people had similarities with the people whose remains are preserved as the [[Chinchorro mummies]] of the north coast of Chile.They also lived at the same time. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{hist-stub}} [[Category:History of Ecuador]] [[Category:Cultural anthropology]]