Chapter 3. Inferring provenance, manufacturing technique, and firing temperatures of the Monagrillo ware (3520-1300 cal BC),Panama’s first pottery

Iizuka, Fumie; Cooke, Richard G.; Frame, Lesley D.; Vandiver, Pamela B.

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“…3200–2500 14 C yr B.P.) consists of the pottery complex formerly called Sarigua, which Sánchez Herrera () tentatively calls “Incised and Appliqué,” based on ceramics from Cebollal (e.g., Willey & McGimsey ; Stirling and Stirling 1987; Cooke, 1984; , ; Biese ; Griggs ; Iizuka et al., ; Isaza‐Aizpurua ; Mayo ; Peres, ; Sánchez Herrera ). The second scheme is labeled Early Ceramic ( ca .…”

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“…Early Ceramic B vessels are not well understood; however, they have additional forms when compared to Monagrillo ware, including collared rims with globular bodies and possibly, cylindrical chalices with everted rims. Decorations include incisions, stems, punctations, appliqués, and striations (Cooke, ; Iizuka, ; Iizuka et al., ; Sánchez Herrera, ; Willey & McGimsey, ).…”

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“…However, production zones based on these criteria were not clearly identified. Iizuka et al.’s () pilot study of 30 ceramic and six modern clayey soil samples identified two paste inclusion types: one of granitic rock‐based natural inclusions from the Azuero Peninsula, and the other composed of extrusive igneous rocks found near all Monagrillo sites. The pilot study did not determine whether coarse, fresh, and angular mineral grains also found in pottery were from sand or crushed intrusive rocks.…”

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The earliest Panamanian pottery: Reconstructing production and distribution of Monagrillo ceramics through petrographic provenance analysis

Iizuka

2017

Geoarchaeology

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Monagrillo pottery (ca. 4500‐3200 14C yr B.P.) is the earliest in Panama and one of the first ceramics in the New World. It is found in two distinct site types: (1) shell‐bearing middens of the northeastern Azuero Peninsula and (2) rock shelters of the Pacific plains, foothils, and cordillera, and the Caribbean slopes of central Panama. Here, I present a study that sources Monagrillo ceramics using petrography to distinguish locally produced from transported wares. Results indicate that ceramics were mainly produced in two zones: northeastern Azuero, and the Pacific slopes around Río Grande. Diachronic changes in ceramic sources were not observed. A number of vessels found in the Pacific plains rock shelters in the intermediate area were wares transported from both production zones. Most ceramics from the Caribbean slopes were manufactured on the Pacific slopes. As the first systematic pottery sourcing project conducted in Panama, this research provides the basis for future evaluations of degrees of sedentism, patterns of human mobility, and exchange, which can improve the knowledge of the context of ceramic origins in New World tropics.

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The earliest Panamanian pottery: Reconstructing production and distribution of Monagrillo ceramics through petrographic provenance analysis

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2017

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“…It has only been reported further west in central Panama (Veraguas, Coclé and Herrera provinces), across an area that covers 5600 km 2 and includes the Parita Bay coast (Pacific), Pacific coastal lowlands and Pacific and Atlantic foothills. A local development of Monagrillo ceramics is inferred (Willey and McGimsey, 1954;Cooke, 1995;Iizuka et al, 2014).…”

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“…At the early ceramic Monagrillo (He-5) site in Parita Bay, Pacific Panama, cetacean remains including killer whale (Orcinus orca) were found scattered through a shell-bearing midden that built up between 5500 and 3200 cal BP in a prograding Holocene marine coastal environment (Willey and McGimsey, 1954, pp. 151-2;Clary et al, 1984;Iizuka et al, 2014). Since cetaceans have beached in this bay since the Middle Holocene, it is likely that the remains at Monagrillo were incorporated naturally or as cultural curiosities into the midden matrix.…”

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Exploitation of dolphins (Cetacea: Delphinidae) at a 6000 yr old Preceramic site in the Pearl Island archipelago, Panama

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Martínez‐Polanco

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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Dolphins are widespread in warm oceanic and coastal waters. They habitually frequent islands. In California, Chile, and other localities, prehistoric peoples targeted dolphins. Some communities specialised in their capture. Elsewhere, prehistoric human use of cetaceans is attributed to opportunistic exploitation of active or stranded animals. In Meso-and Central America, the scarcity of cetaceans in archaeological sites is inferred to reflect the difficulties of their capture at sea with available technology. An unrecorded regional pattern is evident on Pedro González Island in the Pearl Islands (Panama). Remains of bottlenose and common dolphins were found in a Preceramic midden ("Playa Don Bernardo" [PDB]) located in a reef-and mangrove-fringed bay. Eight 14 C-dates bracket the deposit between 6200 and 5600 calibrated years BP. The Preceramic strata, which are between 0.8 m and nearly 4 m deep, are capped by a pottery-bearing soil deposited after a 3000-yr. hiatus in occupation. Delphinid bones and teeth represent 8% of 3660 mammal specimens identified to Family in three small test cuts. These cuts represent only 0.7% of the estimated midden area. A minimum of fourteen dolphin individuals is inferred: 11 belong to common dolphin (Delphinus), two to bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops), and one, possibly, to harbour dolphin (cf Stenella). Several bones show evidence for cuts, scrapes and thermal alteration. Some modifications are anthropogenic. Dry season upwelling induces shoaling fish to enter bays in the Pearl Islands attracting their nektonic, avian and dolphin predators. Ecologically, Don Bernardo Bay suits the short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and the common bottlenose nose dolphin (Tursiops tuncatus) -the most likely species to be present on the basis of osteology and zoogeography. The opportunistic use of naturally beached dolphins is one hypothesis for their procurement at PDB. Another is intentional human interference: corralling and driving dolphins with watercraft when they entered Don Bernardo Bay to feed or under threat from shark attacks. Ethnographic evidence around the world is supportive. PDB's total subsistence strategy was multi-faceted, comprising exploiting dolphins and marine turtles, farming, marine shore collecting, marine coastal fishing, and hunting in island forests and secondary vegetation. The population included experienced seafarers. Among the exploited mammals, dolphins provided easily the largest quantities of edible tissues, fats and oils.Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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Un análisis visual de técnicas de manufactura y tecnología de la cerámica del sitio Puerto Hormiga, Colombia: reconsideraciones sobre las observaciones de Reichel-Dolmatoff

Iizuka,

Carvajal Contreras

2023

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La adopción de la cerámica ha sido un indicador importante del Neolítico en la arqueología en el Viejo Mundo. Sin embargo, el momento de su emergencia, la tecnología asociada y el contexto conductual varían. Puerto Hormiga, un conchero en el Caribe colombiano, tiene una de las primeras cerámicas en Suramérica. Reichel-Dolmatoff describió las técnicas de fabricación de piezas irregulares y fragmentos cerámicos en cuya manufactura se utilizaba la técnica de enrollado en espiral. Examinamos visualmente los procesos de producción y las técnicas de fabricación de la cerámica de Puerto Hormiga. Las muestras seleccionadas se produjeron mediante la superposición de pequeñas losas y se combinaron con tiras cortas de enrollado en espiral o con nódulos pequeños. No se encontraron pruebas claras de una única aplicación con largas tiras de enrollado en espiral. Las inclusiones, en su mayoría de fibra vegetal y con inclusiones de minerales y rocas del tamaño de arena y fragmentos de roca, son las mismas que reportó Reichel-Dolmatoff. Se prioriza la facilidad en la producción; las vasijas con desgrasante mineral pueden haberse utilizado para obtener resistencia al impacto y efectividad en la cocción, contrariamente a la cerámica con desgrasante vegetal que aumenta su transportabilidad y se asocia con la manufactura de artefactos por grupos humanos con un grado mayor de movilidad. La adopción de los métodos de losa —y tiras cortas de enrollado en espiral— y sus relaciones con otros pasos técnicos en la producción requieren más explicaciones. Este estudio sirve como un primer paso hacia dicha comprensión y contribuye al debate más amplio de los orígenes de la cerámica y la aplicabilidad del concepto de Neolítico.

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Chapter 3. Inferring provenance, manufacturing technique, and firing temperatures of the Monagrillo ware (3520-1300 cal BC),Panama’s first pottery

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

The earliest Panamanian pottery: Reconstructing production and distribution of Monagrillo ceramics through petrographic provenance analysis

The earliest Panamanian pottery: Reconstructing production and distribution of Monagrillo ceramics through petrographic provenance analysis

Exploitation of dolphins (Cetacea: Delphinidae) at a 6000 yr old Preceramic site in the Pearl Island archipelago, Panama

Un análisis visual de técnicas de manufactura y tecnología de la cerámica del sitio Puerto Hormiga, Colombia: reconsideraciones sobre las observaciones de Reichel-Dolmatoff

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