A few blocks away from the Pumapungo Museum, along the Calle Larga, is the Museo de las Culturas Aborígenas (Museum of Aboriginal Cultures), a small but jam-packed museum of pre-Columbian artifacts. There were eight or nine rooms that traced the history of ceramics in Ecuador, starting with the Valdivian culture that goes back to 5,000 years B.C. The Valdivian artifacts, found on the Santa Elena peninsula east of Guayaquil, are some of the oldest known ceramic works in all of the Americas.