Los sitios El Esfuerzo y La Mesa: Investigaciones arqueológicas en la Costa Oriental Lago de Maracaibo, Venezuela

The present work presents the results of the archaeological investigations carried out at the El Esfuerzo and La Mesa sites, located on the Eastern Coast of Lake Maracaibo, Santa Rita and Cabimas municipalities in the Zulia-Venezuela state. The excavations were carried out in two historically and culturally related necropolis with the Kaketio, a speaking Arawako people who produced a ceramic type and a mortuary practice associated with the Dabajuro Tradition archaeologically referenced for a wide territory of the northwestern Venezuelan.