Archaeological fieldwork in Chiriquí

Author(s): Sigvald Linné

Year: 1936

Summary

This is a 1936 article talks about the number of artifacts that are housed in American (US) museums and the overwhelming number that are in private collection. One of the arguments is that the archaeological exploration of the area has little to do with learning about culture and had more (if not entirely) to do with the gold in the area. Evidence of that can be seen in the name that the area became known as "Castilla del Oro." The unfortunate thing is that literature, especially academic in nature, the author claims, is lacking (at least at the time of exploitation and excavation). This brief article's main purpose, however, is to publish the "results of an excavation that was carried out by a countryman of min [the authors]" (96). The excavation that is described was carried out by Gosta von Friesendorff of the Swedish Forestry Service in the early 1930's.

Cite this Record

Archaeological fieldwork in Chiriquí. Sigvald Linné. Ethnos. (1): 95-102. 1936 ( tDAR id: 4554) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8PZ56RJ

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

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: -82.441; min lat: 6.839 ; max long: -77.168; max lat: 10.055 ;

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