The discovery of gold in the graves of Chiriqui, Panama

Author(s): Samuel Lothrop

Year: 1919

Summary

Scanned image of the book containing this Volume of the "Indian Notes" journal. This article, written in 1919, briefly describes the authors,Samuel Lothrop, first hand account of exploration and exploration of grave goods, specifically gold grave goods (the author claims that the excavation extracted a some of two million in gold images and dust).

Cite this Record

The discovery of gold in the graves of Chiriqui, Panama. Samuel Lothrop. Museum of the American Indian Indian Notes and Monographs. (6): 22-37. 1919 ( tDAR id: 4555) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8057D2W

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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