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ID  2795  -  Public access
Description :   The flying squid. The supernatural world of the Coclé Introduction: The cocle, like so many other unwritten peoples, expressed the identities and qualities of the gods who ruled their universe through a metaphorical language inspired by the nature that surrounded them. Within the funerary offerings that accompanied the characters that rested in the tombs investigated in El Caño, the images of the gold discoidal pectorals are the ones that most inform about what these qualities would be: jaguars, eagles and crocodiles express ferocity and speed; seahorses, of transformatio...
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ID  2796  -  Public access
Description :   NATURAL RESOURCES. Exploitation and exchange of natural resources for the manufacture of luxury goods. Nature and origin of the beads of the necklaces and other stone artifacts of green or green-blue color. Introduction. The funerary attire and offerings found in the burials of the necropolis of El Caño reflect a remarkable diversity of materials and production techniques. This shows that the Coclé chiefs found in their environment not only the basic subsistence resources, but also obtained raw materials to make sumptuary items that reflected their status. In the tombs of El Caño have ...
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ID  2797  -  Public access
Description :   TATTOOS AND PAINTINGS. Corporal impressions in pre-Hispanic Panama: the anthropomorphic vessels of the necropolis of El Caño.. Introduction. The use of tattoos and body paintings by American cultures was already reported by the first European chroniclers during the Conquest and is still prevalent among today´s indigenous peoples. Nothing indicates that the cocle did not follow these customs, and although the state of decomposition of the individuals buried in the tombs excavated in El Caño prevents the analysis of skin samples, this practice, as well as its social significance, can be...
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Description :   LA ESCULTURA PRECOLOMBINA DEL ÁREA INTERMEDIA. APROXIMACIÓN AL ESTUDIO ESTILÍSTICO, ICONOGRÁFICO Y ESPACIAL DEL GRUPO ESCULTÓRICO DE EL CAÑO. (THE PRE-COLUMBIAN SCULPTURE OF THE INTERMEDIATE AREA. APPROACH TO THE STYLISTIC, ICONOGRAPHIC AND SPATIAL STUDY OF THE SCULPTURAL GROUP OF EL CAÑO) Introduction: El Caño (Na-20) is located in this same basin, 2 km upstream from Sitio Conte. This is a multicomponent deposit with deposits and structures belonging to stages between 700 and 1550 AD. Some of them are visible today on the surface - alignments of basaltic monoliths, a roadway and a ...
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