Ocupaciones Prehispánicas En Isla Pedro González, Archipiélago De Las Perlas, Panamá: Aproximación A Una Cronología Con Comentarios Sobre Las Conexiones Externas

Martín, Juan Guillermo; Cooke, Richard G.; Bustamante, Fernando; Holst, Irene; Lara, Alexandra; Redwood, Stewart D.

doi:10.7183/1045-6635.27.3.378

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“…The development of decorated pottery categories between around 400 BC and AD 500 in east and west Panama provinces, and in the Chagres River basin, bears witness to a recognizable regional ceramic style that nonetheless exhibits developmental parallels with ceramic sequence evolution in Coclé, Azuero and southern Veraguas (Martín et al 2016; Núñez Cortés 2015). The most intensive use of the Playa Venado mortuary precinct spans the period AD 550–850 based on the radiocarbon dating of cultural and geological features, and pottery typology (Smith-Guzmán et al 2018).…”

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“…By about AD 1000, another more categorical change occurs in pottery distribution in Panama to the east of the El Valle volcano. Pottery distribution across this region after this date, and until Spanish conquest, is broadly co-terminus, not only with the archaeological concept of a Greater or Gran Darién culture area (Cooke 1976;Martín-Rincón 2002;Mendizábal 2004), but also with the "language of Cueva" that was used either as a vernacular or as a trade language (Constenla Umaña 1991Umaña , 2012Cooke 2016;Romoli 1987). This is an intractable dataset, however, that compromises the relative robustness of alternate hypotheses (Grugni et al 2015:S1 file; Cooke 2016).…”

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Interpersonal Violence at Playa Venado, Panama (550–850 Ad): A Reevaluation of the Evidence

Smith-Guzmán

Cooke

2018

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Many Spanish chroniclers detail violent cultural practices of the indigenous populations they encountered in the Isthmo-Colombian Area; however, lack of physical evidence of interpersonal violence from archaeological contexts has made uncertain the veracity of these claims. At the precolumbian site of Playa Venado in Panama, these accounts of violent mortuary rituals may have influenced the interpretation of the burials encountered in excavations, leading to claims of mutilations and sacrifice, with little or no supporting evidence. This paper considers the physical evidence for interpersonal violence and sacrificial death at Playa Venado based on the burial positioning, demographic composition, and trauma present on the human remains recovered from the site. Analysis of field notes, excavation photos, and the 77 individuals available for study from the site yielded no evidence of perimortem trauma nor abnormal body positioning unexplained by taphonomy. The demography at the site tracked with normal patterns of natural age-at-death at the non-elite site of Cerro Juan Díaz rather than the abnormal patterns seen at the large ceremonial sites of Sitio Conte and El Caño. Therefore, we propose an alternative interpretation of the site as a non-elite cemetery containing evidence of re-use and secondary burial practices associated with ancestor veneration rituals.

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Interpersonal Violence at Playa Venado, Panama (550–850 Ad): A Reevaluation of the Evidence

Smith-Guzmán

Cooke

2018

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“…A very different kind of fishing is evidenced, however, at Playa Don Bernardo on Pedro González Island (part of the Pearl Island Archipelago in the Gulf of Panama) between 4200 and 3600 BCE. This is the only mid‐Holocene human settlement yet identified in the Gulf of Panama, and its initial settlers made the sea crossing from the mainland by canoe when the postglacial sea levels had nearly reached those of today (Martín et al, ). They hunted a dwarf deer (Cervidae sp.)…”

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“…The large numbers of dolphin remains ( Delphinus and Tursiops ) in the Playa Don Bernardo middens was either acquired at sea or by scavenging recently stranded dolphins (Cooke et al, ). Phytoliths and starch grains found on grinding stones at the site evidence that its occupants also consumed maize (Martín et al, ).…”

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Cold‐water diving in the tropics? External auditory exostoses among the pre‐Columbian inhabitants of Panama

Smith-Guzmán

Cooke

2018

American J Phys Anthropol

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Objectives: The appearance of external auditory exostoses archaeologically has been attributed to aquatic activities in middle latitudes. However, recent clinical research implicates low sea surface temperatures, especially below a threshold of 19 C, as a stronger predictor of ear exostosis development than latitude. Here, we examine the frequency of external auditory exostoses in human remains from nine pre-Columbian archaeological sites in Panama, representing individuals from a warm, tropical region. Materials and methods:External auditory exostoses were recorded as present when an abnormal bony growth was observed macroscopically within the ear canal. The presence of exostoses was compared by right and left side, geographical region, sex, and degree of stenosis.Results: A total of 125 adult individuals made up the observable sample analyzed in this study.Exostoses were observed in seven males and one female. All individuals affected by this pathology were excavated from mortuary contexts along the Gulf of Panama-a region characterized by intense cold water upwelling in the dry season.Discussion: This study suggests that external auditory exostoses in pre-Columbian Panama affected individuals involved in habitual aquatic activities in the cold, upwelled waters of the Gulf of Panama. These activities appear to be almost exclusively dominated by male individuals.Ethnohistorical and archaeological records point to marine shell resource acquisition by deepwater diving as the activity driving exostosis development in pre-Columbian Panama. K E Y W O R D Sactivity markers, auditory exostosis, diving, Panama, upwelling

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“…Paleoecological and archaeological data point to a continuous human inhabitation of the Isthmo-Colombian area from approximately 16 kya (Cooke et al, 2013; Ranere and Cooke, 2020). Clear evidence for the cultivation of domesticated plants, including maize ( Zea mays ), manioc ( Manihot esculenta ) and squash ( Cucurbita moschata ), dates back to more than 8-4.5 kya (Linares, 1977a; Linares, 1977b; Linares and Ranere, 1980; Linares et al, 1975; Piperno, 2011; Ranere and Cooke, 2020), while Panama’s first pottery ( Monagrillo Ware ) appeared about 4.5 kya (Martín et al, 2016; Martín et al, 2015). By 3 kya, the western region possesses all the characteristics of coherent historical unit (Greater Chiriquí, which extended into present-day Costa Rica), while this consensus is not available for the central and eastern regions, often termed Greater Coclé and Greater Darién (see specific section in Supplementary Information for further details).…”

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Archaeogenomic Distinctiveness of the Isthmo-Colombian Area

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Aram

Raveane

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The recently enriched genomic history of Indigenous groups in the Americas is still meagre concerning continental Central America. Here, we report ten pre-Hispanic (plus two early colonial) genomes and 84 genome-wide profiles from seven groups presently living in Panama. Our analyses reveal that pre-Hispanic demographic changes and isolation events contributed to create the extensive genetic structure currently seen in the area, which is also characterized by a distinctive Isthmo-Colombian Indigenous component. This component drives these populations on a specific variability axis and derives from the local admixture of different ancestries of northern North American origin(s). Two of these ancestries were differentially associated to Pleistocene Indigenous groups that also moved into South America leaving heterogenous footprints. An additional Pleistocene ancestry was brought by UPopI, a still unsampled population that remained restricted to the Isthmian area, expanded locally during the early Holocene, and left genomic traces up to the present.

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Ocupaciones Prehispánicas En Isla Pedro González, Archipiélago De Las Perlas, Panamá: Aproximación A Una Cronología Con Comentarios Sobre Las Conexiones Externas

Cited by 17 publications

References 20 publications

Interpersonal Violence at Playa Venado, Panama (550–850 Ad): A Reevaluation of the Evidence

Interpersonal Violence at Playa Venado, Panama (550–850 Ad): A Reevaluation of the Evidence

Cold‐water diving in the tropics? External auditory exostoses among the pre‐Columbian inhabitants of Panama

Archaeogenomic Distinctiveness of the Isthmo-Colombian Area

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