Note on the Archaeology of Chiriqui

Author(s): George MacCurdy

Year: 1913

Summary

This brief 1913 article argues that the "...faunal environment of a given region is apt to be reflected in its primitive art, especially when the art is primarily of local origin." The region of interest is Chiriqui Panama. The author, George MacCurdy, describes the animal forms of the ceramic art found in the region to illustrate his argument.

Cite this Record

Note on the Archaeology of Chiriqui. George MacCurdy. American Anthropologist. 15 (4): 661-667. 1913 ( tDAR id: 4557) ; doi:10.6067/XCV82Z14ND

URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28191310%2F12%292%3A15%3A4%3C661%3...


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: -82.617; min lat: 7.275 ; max long: -76.992; max lat: 9.622 ;

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