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

Iizuka, Fumie

doi:10.1002/gea.21626

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“…Three complete and four fragments of stemmed bifacial points were excavated from the earliest deposits (Figure 2m). The points are triangular in shape, have expanding stems and indented bases, and some have basal thinning or flutes on one face (Iceland and Hirth 2021;Scheffler 2008;Scheffler et al 2012), and fit well with the broad regional pattern of stemmed and barbed triangular points dating to this period (Ranere and Cooke 2021). Bifacial points are absent from strata younger than 7040 cal b.c.…”

Section: Genomic Evidence Of Early Human Dispersal In the Neotropicssupporting

confidence: 64%

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Terminal Pleistocene Through Middle Holocene Occupations in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Linking Ecology and Culture in the Context of Neotropical Foragers and Early Farmers

2021

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Data from rock shelters in southern Belize show evidence of tool making, hunting, and aquatic resource exploitation by 10,500 cal b.c.; the shelters functioned as mortuary sites between 7600 and 2000 cal b.c. Early Holocene contexts contain stemmed and barbed bifaces as part of a tradition found broadly throughout the neotropics. After around 6000 cal b.c., bifacial tools largely disappear from the record, likely reflecting a shift to increasing reliance on plant foods, around the same time that the earliest domesticates appear in the archaeological record in the neotropics. We suggest that people living in southern Belize maintained close ties with neighbors to the south during the Early Holocene, but lagged behind in innovating new crops and farming technologies during the Middle Holocene. Maize farming in Belize intensified between 2750–2050 cal b.c. as maize became a dietary staple, 1000–1300 years later than in South America. Overall, we argue from multiple lines of data that the Neotropics of Central and South America were an area of shared information and technologies that heavily influenced cultural developments in southeastern Mesoamerica during the Early and Middle Holocene.

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Section: Genomic Evidence Of Early Human Dispersal In the Neotropicssupporting

confidence: 64%

“…Currently available data suggest that this shift to staple consumption of maize happened 800 years prior to the first documented settlers (Iceland and Hirth 2021) and communities in the Maya lowlands (Castellanos and Foias 2017;Inomata et al 2020). This may indicate that while early farmers of maize (around 2050-3200 b.c.)…”

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Terminal Pleistocene Through Middle Holocene Occupations in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Linking Ecology and Culture in the Context of Neotropical Foragers and Early Farmers

2021

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“…Topography and earthquakes from Amante & Eakins (2009), U.S. Geological Survey (2010, 2017. (RGFZ) Río Gatún Fault zone; (RIF) Río Indio Fault.…”

Section: The Cenozoic Sedimentary Basins Of Panamamentioning

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“…Its first appearance seems to be in the 1970's in documents such as IUREP (1977). Name assigned after the Pesé stream ( Figure 136) and Pesé village on the Azuero Peninsula Relevant documents discussing the Unit: IUREP (1977); Sjunnesson & Svendenius (2004); Buchs et al (2008Buchs et al ( , 2011; Iizuka (2013Iizuka ( & 2017; Castrellon- Romero et al (2019). Synonymy: The Pesé Formation is differentiated from the Tonosí Formation in Ministerio de Comercio e Industrias (1991) (APP-B3; APP-B4) and in Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN) "Tommy Guardia" (1996) (APP-B1; APP-B2); however, it is later described as part of "Late Eocene or?…”

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“…Early Eocene to Miocene Forearc sediments of the Tonosí Formation" by Buchs et al (2008Buchs et al ( & 2011, thus the reason it is not shown in Figure 050. Nonetheless, the term keeps being used after 2011 by several authors specializing in the field of archeology rather than geology (Iizuka (2013(Iizuka ( & 2017; Castrellon- Romero et al (2019)). Location of the type section / Stratotype / Reference Section / Other localities: The Pesé stream area (Figure 136).…”

Section: Unit: Pedro Miguel Formation (Of the Gaillard Group)mentioning

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Stratigraphic Lexicon: The Onshore Cenozoic Sedimentary Formations of The Republic of Panama

Leblanc¹

2021

Biosis:Biol. Syst.

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The stratigraphic knowledge of Panama was, until now, spread over hundreds of scientific/geologic publications written during the past 120 years. The construction of the Panama Canal during the early twentieth century helped galvanizing the engineering and geological disciplines to understand the tectonic, sedimentation and biodiversity of the Cenozoic Era in this part of the world. Later, few petroleum companies arrived on the scene and contributed to our knowledge of the sub-surface. The past thirty years saw a surge of studies by many institutions in areas away from the Canal, such as in Darien, Azuero Peninsula, Bocas del Toro, and the Burica Peninsula near the Costa Rica Border. Our most recent knowledge came from the widening of the Panama Canal between 2007 and 2016. It is from all these older and recent studies that the present Lexicon draws its content. It provides the historical background of all described geological units in Panama and summarizes the lithological and paleontological knowledge of each units in an easy-to-search format.

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Ecological legacies of past fire and human activity in a Panamanian forest

McMichael

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et al. 2022

Plants People Planet

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Tropical forests provide global ecosystem services and harbor much of Earth's terrestrial biodiversity, but the mechanisms driving the patterns of biodiversity remain uncertain. Palms are one of the most abundant and most widely used plant groups, particularly in the Neotropics. Our data highlight how both direct and indirect human influence that occurred decades to hundreds of years ago can affect the abundances of palm species in modern tropical forests. Our results highlight that biodiversity is dynamic, and changes through time, and that human activities can affect species composition for centuries in tropical forests. Summary• Human activities over the past decades and centuries, including fire, cultivation, and forest opening, may have left ecological legacies that persist in modern tropical forests, particularly among palms. We investigated whether past human activities affected modern palm abundances in a well-studied plot located in a tropical semievergreen forest of Panama.• We analyzed soil cores for charcoal to reconstruct past fire events and phytoliths to reconstruct past vegetation changes. We dated as many charcoal fragments as possible to place a temporal framework on past fire events.• Our analysis documented widespread fires that occurred 600-900 years ago across the plot. Oenocarpus mapora increased in abundance as a result of these fires, though other palms did not. A subsequent increase in O. mapora occurred later in the relative absence of fire and was likely due to game hunting during the construction of the Panama Canal.• Our results showed that the enrichment of O. mapora was determined by disturbance characteristics (e.g., timing, type, and intensity), but the persistence of increased abundances was likely determined by traits (life history characteristics). These data highlight the complexity of human-environment interactions and how they can persist for centuries in settings with long-lived trees such as tropical forests. These data highlight the importance of adding a historical context to further understand modern ecological patterns and processes.

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

Cited by 7 publications

References 32 publications

Terminal Pleistocene Through Middle Holocene Occupations in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Linking Ecology and Culture in the Context of Neotropical Foragers and Early Farmers

Terminal Pleistocene Through Middle Holocene Occupations in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Linking Ecology and Culture in the Context of Neotropical Foragers and Early Farmers

Stratigraphic Lexicon: The Onshore Cenozoic Sedimentary Formations of The Republic of Panama

Ecological legacies of past fire and human activity in a Panamanian forest

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