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ID  2683  -  Public access
Description :   Tomb T1 is a 27 m³ pit, which contains eight individuals, two of them of high status, an adult of undetermined sex and an infant. They were all buried in extended dorsal decubitus. The tomb contained a total of 197 artefacts of 18 different varieties. The highest-status individual was buried with his body facing north. This was covered with two pectorals; four cuffs; a band woven with clusters of spherical beads; a belt of spherical beads covered in gold leaf which were made of some sort of perishable material now disappeared; a double pendant; a resin doll decorated with gold covers; a bra...
ID  2684  -  Public access
Description :   Tomb T2 is a 70 m³ pit. It was excavated in a stepped manner in three levels and contains three groups of burials. Five individuals were buried in the first level, three in the second level, and 19 in the third level. All of them were placed in an extended ventral decubitus position. The highest status individual, an adult male, was buried in the middle of the third level with his head facing east and his arms folded over his chest. His grave goods consisted of more than 70 items of gold (including four pectorals and four gold cuffs); copper, stone, bones, and animal teeth. In the center...
ID  2685  -  Public access
Description :   Tomb T4 is a 60 m³ pit, and contains a burial of 36 individuals . The individual buried with the largest number of artifacts, status markers, was placed with the body facing east, not in the center of the pit, but on its south side next to the wall. He was decapitated and buried with his arms outstretched on both sides of the body. His head was placed beside his shoulders with his face up. His grave goods contained a pectoral, cuffs, pendants of copper and stone, and a belt of spherical beads lined with gold cases, among other artifacts made with animal teeth. Two other individuals with go...
ID  2686  -  Public access
Description :   Tomb T7 is a 60 m³ pit containing 43 individuals (the MNI of this tomb is currently under review) all buried in an extended ventral decubitus position: 19 males, 7 females, and 16 infants. Two individuals, an infant and an adult male, were persons of high status. The infant had twice as many high-status artifacts (cuffs) so it was thought that his status was greater than that of the high-status adult accompanying him. They were placed in the center with their arms crossed over their chest and their heads facing east. Both had pectorals, cuffs, belts, and pendants - made of gold, copper, an...
ID  2687  -  Public access
Description :   Five charcoal fragments from Monocotyledoneae, probably from the Arecaceae family. The vascular system of monocotyledons is characterized by structurally well ordered vascular bundles (Tomlinson 2006).
ID  2688  -  Public access
Description :   Pectoral and cuffs of gold and copper. They are very deteriorated and were found next to a necklace of spherical resin beads wrapped in gold cases.
ID  2689  -  Public access
Description :   Gold and copper cuffs (2). They were found next to a pectoral (perhaps two pectorals, which cannot be confirmed because the artifact is very deteriorated), and a necklace of spherical resin beads wrapped in gold cases.
ID  2690  -  Public access
Description :   Gold and copper artifact. Fragmented.
ID  2691  -  Public access
Description :   Fragments of an object with a laminar appearance manufactured from gold and copper. It is very fragmented.
ID  2692  -  Public access
Description :   Collection of gold beads (one type, two sizes).
ID  2693  -  Public access
Description :   Tapered cuff with "zigzag" design. It is made of gold and copper, and was found inside another bracelet of the same shape and design. A fragmented ulna and radius were found inside. It is very fragmented and oxidized.
ID  2694  -  Public access
Description :   Tapered cuff with zigzag design. It is made from gold and copper, and was found inside a cuff of the same shape and design on one of the forearms of individual I7. Inside, fragments of the ulna and radius bones were found. It is very oxidized and fragmented.
ID  2695  -  Public access
Description :   The pit of tomb T8, UE450, has reached us incomplete due to the cuts produced in it by the opening of subsequent tombs (T4 and T7) and it is therefore impossible to know its original complete dimensions. The pit has only retained between 2.90 m and 2.00 m of its initial length. Of its original depth, there is just 0.24 m below the burial level of tomb T4, and about 1.05 m in the space between tombs T4 and T7. On the other hand, it retains its full width, which is between 2.35 m and 2.73 m. The pit in question has preserved about 6.30 m2 of its original surface, which obviously must have been...
ID  2696  -  Public access
Description :   Tomb T5 was located 3.30-3.41 m from the surface, immediately east of tomb T2. This tomb was disturbed, so we do not know its original shape. In it was found the bones of an adult individual of indeterminate sex, placed in extended ventral decubitus with arms arranged on both sides of the body. In addition, the badly deteriorated bones of at least two other individuals were found. The bodies of tomb T5 were covered by plates placed upside down, over which were placed a set of pots and jars of Early Polychrome Conte, Smoked Wared, Red Line, Panelled Red and Red Conte (Lothrop typology, 1942). ...
ID  2697  -  Public access
Description :   Tomb T6 was located below tomb T5 at a depth of 3.48-3.69 m. Of this unit, only an area of 2.48 x 2.30 m is preserved as it was cut by tomb T1 to the northwest and by T2 to the southeast. In this burial the lower limbs of two individuals were found in extended dorsal decubitus, partially overlapping each other in a very similar way to individuals I5 and I9 of tomb T2. These were covered by two layers of Polychrome Early Conte, Panelled Red and Conte Rojo (Lothrop typology, 1942) plates and trays placed face down. A thin layer of vegetation was arranged on top of this collection of ceramics. ...
ID  2700  -  Public access
Description :   Perforated shark tooth belonging to the grave goods of individual I04 of tomb T7. It was found beneath their skull.
ID  2702  -  Public access
Description :   Bone spindle whorl.
ID  2707  -  Public access
Description :   The Fabaceae family includes approximately 16,400 species - including trees, shrubs, herbs and lianas - and is divided into three large subfamilies: Caesalpinoideae, Mimosoideae and Papilonoideae (Espinoza & Melandri 2000). The existence of anatomical similarities between genera, tribes and subfamilies of the Fabaceae makes their taxonomic identification very difficult. This charcoal was classified within this subfamily due to the presence of homocellular rays in its anatomy and the absence of a stratified structure (Espinoza & Melandri 2000). Transversal plane: Growth ring marked by narrowi...
ID  2709  -  Public access
Description :   20 charcoal fragments belonging to Rhizophora sp. The woody species of the Rhizophora family have, as common anatomical characteristics, perforations and scalariform pits. Rhizophora spp. include Rhizophora harrisonii, Rhizophora mangle and Rhizophora racemosa, which all share these same anatomical characteristics. Transversal plane. Indistinct growth rings. The wood has a diffuse porosity in the ring with the vessels isolated or in short radial rows of 2-3 (-4) some clustered with abundant tyloses (Insidewood. 2004-onwards; León, 2001; Richter & Dallwitz, 2000-onwards). Longitudinal Tange...
ID  2710  -  Public access
Description :   6 charcoal fragments belonging to Rhizophora sp. Transversal plane. Indistinct growth rings. The wood has a diffuse porosity in the ring with the vessels isolated or in short radial rows of 2-3 (-4) some clustered with abundant tyloses (Insidewood. 2004-onwards; León, 2001; Richter & Dallwitz, 2000-onwards). Longitudinal Tangential Plane. Heterocellular and homocellular rays of procumbent cells 1-5 (-7) cells wide (Fig. 2); heterocellular rays have square or erect cells restricted to marginal rows; it presents scalariform intervessel pits (Insidewood. 2004-onwards; Leon, 2001; Richter & Da...
ID  2711  -  Public access
Description :   20 charcoal fragments belonging to Rhizophora sp. Transversal plane. Indistinct growth rings. The wood has a diffuse porosity in the ring with the vessels isolated or in short radial rows of 2-3 (-4) some clustered with abundant tyloses (Insidewood. 2004-onwards; León, 2001; Richter & Dallwitz, 2000-onwards). Longitudinal Tangential Plane. Heterocellular and homocellular rays of procumbent cells 1-5 (-7) cells wide (Fig. 2); heterocellular rays have square or erect cells restricted to marginal rows; it presents scalariform intervessel pits (Insidewood. 2004-onwards; Leon, 2001; Richter & D...
ID  2712  -  Public access
Description :   20 charcoal fragments corresponding to cf. Manilkara sp. This genus includes species that cannot be differentiated on the basis of their anatomical characteristics (Kukachka 1981), but Manilkara zapota is the only one that grows in dry tropical forests (Condit et al. 2011). Transverse plane: the growth rings are not marked and have a diffuse porosity. The rounded vessels with radial or diagonal distribution in groups of 2-4, feature tylids and deposits in their interior. The parenchyma is apotracheal, diffuse, in narrow bands or in lines of up to 3 cells, reticulated or scaleriform. Tang...
ID  2713  -  Public access
Description :   20 charcoal fragments corresponding to cf. Manilkara sp. This genus includes species that cannot be differentiated on the basis of their anatomical characteristics (Kukachka 1981), but Manilkara zapota is the only one that grows in dry tropical forests (Condit et al. 2011). Transverse plane: the growth rings are not marked and have a diffuse porosity. The rounded vessels with radial or diagonal distribution in groups of 2-4, feature tylids and deposits in their interior. The parenchyma is apotracheal, diffuse, in narrow bands or in lines of up to 3 cells, reticulated or scaleriform. Tang...
ID  2739  -  Public access
Description :   This digital object brings together the papers presented at the 56th ICA 2018 (International Congress of Americanists), Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018 . Symposium coordinated by the team of the Archaeological Project El Caño, under the title: Pre-Hispanic complex societies in the Dry Arc of Panama (Las sociedades complejas prehispánicas en el arco seco de Panamá). The objective of this symposium is to disseminate advances in archaeological research that address the study of complex pre-Columbian societies in the region known as the Dry Arc of Panama. In this region, the excavations of th...
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...
ID  2741  -  Public access
Description :   Materials and documents related to the presentation by Miguel A. Hervás at the 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, entitled: The funerary structures of El Caño (Coclé, Panama) between the VIII and XI centuries. Constructive process and post-depositional transformations (Las estructuras funerarias de El Caño (Coclé, Panamá) entre los siglos VIII y XI. Proceso constructivo y transformaciones postdeposicionales ).
ID  2742  -  Public access
Description :   Materials and documents related to Julia Mayo´s presentation at the 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, with the title: Ritual Violence in El Caño. Analysis and Interpretation of Articulated Human Remains and Marks, Found in the Simultaneous Multiple Burials of El Caño (Violencia Ritual en El Caño. Análisis e Interpretación de los Restos Humanos Articulados y Marcas, Hallados en los Entierros Múltiples Simultáneos de El Caño)..
ID  2743  -  Public access
Description :   Materials and documents related to Carlos Mayo´s presentation at the 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, with the title: Chronology and styles of ceramics at the archaeological site El Caño, Panama (Cronología y estilos cerámicas en el yacimiento arqueológico El Caño, Panamá ).
ID  2744  -  Public access
Description :   Materials and documents related to Jesús Herrerín´s presentation at the 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, with the title: Markers of metabolic stress in the human remains exhumed in tomb 7 of El Caño (Panama) – Marcadores de stress metabólico en los restos humanos exhumados en la Tumba 7 de El Caño (Panamá).
ID  2745  -  Public access
Description :   Materials and documents related to Alexa Hancock´s presentation at the 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, with the title: A case study of an infant urn burial in the necropolis of El Caño.
ID  2746  -  Public access
Description :   Materials and documents related to Joeri Kaal´s presentation at the 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, with the title: Resin objects in the grave goods of El Caño (Panama): design of an analysis protocol and first results (Objetos de resina en los ajuares de El Caño (Panamá): diseño de un protocolo de análisis y primeros resultados )..
ID  2747  -  Public access
Description :   Materials and documents related to the presentation by María Martín-Seijo at the 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, with the title: Wood to accompany death: anthracology in the funerary contexts of El Caño (Coclé, Panama) – (Madera para acompañar la muerte: antracología en los contextos funerarios de El Caño (Coclé, Panamá)).
ID  2748  -  Public access
Description :   Materials and documents related to James Doyle´s presentation at the 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, with the title: The history of Panama among the "Kingdoms of Gold" in pre-Columbian America (La historia de Panamá entre los “Reinos del Oro” en la América precolombina )(.
ID  2749  -  Public access
Description :   Materials and documents related to Adam Berrey´s presentation at the 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, with the title: Demographic factors in the variable development of social inequality in central Panama (Factores demográficos en el desarrollo variable de la desigualdad social en Panamá central ).
ID  2750  -  Public access
Description :   Materials and documents related to Mikael Haller´s presentation at the 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, with the title: An evaluation of the macro-regional mortuary model for the Central Region of Panama.
ID  2752  -  Public access
Description :   Materials and documents related to the presentation by Alfredo F-Valmayor/Ana F-Pampillón at the 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, 15-20 July 2018, with the title: The management of information in the Archaeological Project (La gestión de la información en el Proyecto Arqueológico El Caño (PAEC)) and of Julia Mayo at the 2nd Panamanian Congress of Education and Museums. October 18, 2018, with the title: Digital tools for collection management. Practical workshop on the use of the OdA 2.5 application (Herramientas digitales para la gestión de colecciones. Taller pr...
ID  2753  -  Public access
Description :   Julia Mayo. XVII National Congress of Science and Technology (APANAC 2018). Asociación Panameña para el Avance de la Ciencia (Panamanian Association for the Advancement of Science). 23 to 26 October. Dr. Julia Mayo presented a preview of the results of the multidimensional study conducted on mortuary practices in the isthmus, using El Caño as a case study.
ID  2754  -  Public access
Description :   Congress of Education and Museums. Ciudad del Saber and the Network of Visitor Centers and Museums of the Interoceanic Region of Panama, presented the second edition of the Congress of Education and Museums, October 18, 2018, under the title The Museum Behind the Scenes (El museo tras bastidores), with the objective of strengthening the work of museums and the capacities of the professionals who are part of them. This congress aims to create a space for the exchange of local experiences, dialogue and collaboration between professionals from the various disciplines that make up the mu...
ID  2755  -  Public access
Description :   Figure carved in sperm whale tooth in the shape of a feline with crocodile features and parts of its body covered with embossed gold sheets. Conte style. The animal´s body is adapted to the shape of the tooth in which it is carved so that both limbs, ending in five-finger claws, close slightly forward. The head is large, with a not very prominent snout, and short, wide ears with rounded margins. The nose is wide and flattened. The eyes are big and round. The mouth, threatening, shows teeth that are square and does not have fangs. A crest, composed of small triangles, runs along the centre of...
ID  2790  -  Public access
Description :   UE001. First layer of excavation area OP1. Filled with very little cultural material, dark brown with lots of organic material and roots. It is in contact with UE005. No cultural remains have been found on the surface. The thickness of this fill is 0.10 m.
ID  2792  -  Public access
Description :   PRE-COLUMBIAN USES OF FOREST RESOURCES IN FUNERARY CONTEXTS DATED FROM 750 TO 1020 cal AD: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL ANALYSIS FROM EL CAÑO (PANAMÁ) Introduction. El Caño site (Coclé Province, Panama) is located at 50 m asl in an aluvial plain which is flooded periodically by the Río Grande that flows into the Parita Bay. The site is in an area of tropical climate of savannah (Awi). The vegetation that grows currently in the surroundings of El Caño is highly affected by human activities, but potential vegetation in this area is dry tropical forest and mangrove estuaries. …
ID  2794  -  Public access
Description :   LA TUMBA T7 DE LA NECRÓPOLIS DE “EL CAÑO”, TRADICIÓN ARQUEOLÓGICA GRAN COCLÉ, ISTMO DE PANAMÁ. Summary: A multiple burial, the tomb T7 -cal d. C. 770-905 (cal AP 1180-1045)/cal d. C. 920-965 (cal AP 1030-985)- with 43 individuals of different status, ages and sexes and a package of human bones, as well as post-burial ritual deposits, has recently been excavated in El Caño. Both the multiple burials and the post-burial ritual deposits had already been observed in other tombs of El Caño and their presence in tomb T7 has served to purify and define the basic funerary pattern of t...
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...
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 ...
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...
ID  2798  -  Public access
Description :   ESTANDARIZACIÓN EN LA CERÁMICA PREHISPÁNICA DE EL CAÑO, PANAMÁ: ESPECIALIZACIÓN, PRODUCTIVIDAD Y CONSUMO. Summary: The pottery found in the tombs of El Caño shares the same style as that produced in the alluvial plains of the region in the centuries between 700 and 1000 A.D. The pottery found in the tombs of El Caño shares the same style as that produced in the alluvial plains of the region in the centuries between 700 and 1000 A.D. The data on the coefficients of variability of the different forms analysed show different standardisation values in the production of polychrome an...
ID  2799  -  Public access
Description :   EL DESCUBRIMIENTO DE UN CEMENTERIO DE ÉLITE EN EL CAÑO: INDICIOS DE UN PATRÓN FUNERARIO EN EL VALLE DE RÍO GRANDE, COCLÉ. Overview: El Caño, located in the province of Coclé (Panama), is an archaeological site known for its unique sculptural style and for containing archaeological stone structures. Recently, four tombs of elite people with rich funerary attires, dated between 700 and 1000 A.D., have been discovered in this place. …
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...
ID  2801  -  Public access
Description :   EL CAÑO: LOS RITUALES FUNERARIOS DE LOS JEFES GUERREROS Overview: This poster presents the result of an investigation aimed at identifying the ritual episodes of the funeral ritual of the warrior chief buried in the T2 tomb of El Caño. The method used consisted of reading the stratigraphic sequence of the deposits found inside the grave of his tomb and ascribing each of them to a phase of the rite of passage. The result of the study indicates that it consisted of eight ritual episodes and that it lasted three years.
ID  2802  -  Public access
Description :   EL CAÑO: SOCIAL ORDER IN THE NECROPOLIS OF “EL CAÑO” Summary: This poster presents the results of an investigation into social order, the aim of which was to determine whether the society buried in the tombs of El Caño was a stratified society. The relationship between wealth and the sex and age of individuals and the spatial organization of the cemetery was observed. The presence of infants with rich funerary attires and the existence of an area for high status graves and a separate area for low status graves indicate that the society represented in El Caño was a stratified society...
ID  2803  -  Public access
Description :   MADERA CARBONIZADA EN CONTEXTOS FUNERARIOS DE LA JEFATURA DE RÍO GRANDE, PANAMÁ: ANTRACOLOGÍA EN EL SITIO DE EL CAÑO.(CHARRED WOOD IN FUNERARY CONTEXTS OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF RIO GRANDE, PANAMA: ANTHRACOLOGY AT THE SITE OF EL CAÑO) Overview The anthracological analysis carried out on the site of El Caño (Coclé province, Panama) allows us to make a first approximation to the possibilities that this type of archeobotanical analysis provides for the study of chiefdoms, and specifically their funerary contexts. The identification of the woody resources used, and the establishment of h...
ID  2804  -  Public access
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 ...
ID  2805  -  Public access
Description :   RESULTADOS DE LOS ANÁLISIS PALINOLÓGICOS DE LOS YACIMIENTOS LP-134, NA-20 Y PN-106, GRAN COCLÉ, PANAMÁ. Autores: Enrique MORENO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Katrina MURRAY, Universidad de Panamá. 2007. Revista Española de Antropología Americana. 2007, vol. 37, núm. 1, 127-148. ISSN: 0556-6533 Summary: In this article we present the results of the palynological analyses carried out on a series of samples taken from three pre-Hispanic sites in Gran Coclé, with the aim of reconstructing the ancient landscape of the region and testing whether some of these sites ...
ID  2806  -  Public access
Description :   CERAMIC COMPONENT OF TRENCHES 4 AND 5 IN THE AREA OF THE COLUMNS OF THE CEREMONIAL COMPLEX OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK EL CAÑO (NA-20), 2006: REVISION OF TYPOLOGY AND CHRONOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION. br>br>r Introduction This report describes the ceramics found in two exploratory excavations carried out by Julia Mayo and her team in 2006 within an area encompassed by the alignment of stone columns. This area was originally approached by Hyat Verrill who named this site "Temple Site" for what was long known in literature.…
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