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This week an unassuming Ecuadorian hacienda became a site of archaeological interest. Workers accidentally discovered a mound containing multiple Pre-Hispanic ceramic funerary urns while using heavy machinery to remove soil on private property in the province of Los Ríos. The funerary mound discovered at the hacienda in Antonio Sotomayor, canton Vinces, Los Ríos, Ecuador. ( Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural ) According to ALDIA, a local newspaper, the police and city officials were informed of the discovery when bones were found within the urns at the hacienda which is located in the canton of Vinces. Soon experts from the regional office of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage (INPC) were called in to study the site and determine which culture