General Discussion: Use of gold and copper: Human Figures

Author(s): William Holmes

Year: 1887

Summary

This 1887 book on Chirqui looks at the various uses of gold, copper, and bronze among the inhabitants. This selection concentrates on the use of gold and copper in the production of human figurines. This selection also includes the contextual information found in the introduction or "general discussion" section of the book that was written in 1887 by the author.

Cite this Record

General Discussion: Use of gold and copper: Human Figures. William Holmes. In The Use of Gold and Other Metals Among the Ancient Inhabitants of Chiriqui, Isthmus of Darien. Pp. 1-14. Wahington D.C.: Smithsoniam Institute: Government Printing Office. 1887 ( tDAR id: 4539) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8MG7ND0

Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Bribrí • Chibchan • Chiriquí • columbian • Concepción Phase • pre-columbian • Tropical Forest Archaic

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Macrobotanical • Metal • Mineral • Shell • Wood

Site Name
Barú • Bugaba • Bugavita • highland Chiriquí

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Burial Pit • Cemetery • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Isolated Burial • Non-Domestic Structures • Rock Art • Settlements • Tomb • Water-Related

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Architectural Survey • Collections Research • Data Recovery / Excavation • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Reconnaissance / Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Ethnoarchaelogical • Ethnography • Ethnohistorical • Historical

Geographic Keywords
Barú region • Barú volcano • Bay of Chiriquí • Boquete • Boruca • Castilla de Oro • Chiriquí • Chiriquí Province • City of David • City of Gold • Isthmus of Panamá • Mesoamerica • New World • Pacific Ocean • Panama • Panamá City • Santiago de Veraguas • Talamanca Cordillera • Terraba • Tierra Firma

Temporal Keywords
1500's • 16th Century • 1700's • 18th Century • 19th Century • Aguas Buenas Period • Bugaba Period • Chiriquí Phases • Colonial Period • columbian • Concepción Phase • Eighteenth century • Late Bugaba Phase • New World • Nineteenth Century • pre-Columbian • sixteenth century • Tropical Forest Archaic

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: -4600 to 1500

Radiocarbon Date: 680 to 600

Spatial Coverage

min long: -82.62; min lat: 8.124 ; max long: -81.867; max lat: 8.654 ;

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