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ID  2740  -  Public access
Description :   Documents related to Mercedes Guinea´s presentation at the 56th ICA (International Congress of Americanists), Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, entitled Scenes related to death and sacrifice in the iconography of the grave goods of the necropolis of El Caño, Panama (AD 750-1020) – (Escenas relacionadas con la muerte y el sacrificio en la iconografía de los ajuares funerarios de la necrópolis de El Caño, Panamá (AD 750-1020)).. It also contains as a resource another article entitled Death and sacrifice in the grave goods of the necropolis of El Caño, Panama (AD 750-1020): An iconographic s...
Author:  Mercedes Guinea Bueno
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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...
Author:  Mercedes Guinea Bueno
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ID  2800  -  Public access
Description :   LA ARMADURA DORADA DE UN CACIQUE COCLÉ: LOS PECTORALES DE ORO DEL AJUAR DEL INDIVIDUO PRINCIPAL DE LA TUMBA 2 DE LA NECRÓPOLIS DE EL CAÑO (900-1020 d. C.) Summary: The recent discovery and excavation (2009) of a funerary complex at El Caño in the Panamanian region of Gran Coclé sheds new light on the archaeology of the Isthmus. This article presents the descriptive analysis and an approximation to the iconographic interpretation of the four golden pectorals that accompanied one of the chiefs in the tomb who, judging by the ritual of his burial and the richness of his trousseau, is t...
Author:  Mercedes Guinea Bueno
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