Bocas del Toro (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
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This document describes the account of a visit to the Huacas in November of 1860.
The ceiling of the Santos Palace in Lisbon and its Importance as a Historical Document. (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Documenting the Built Environment (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An interesting assemblage of Chinese ceramics from the 16th and 17th century has been found in Panama. Many can be compared to pieces on the ceiling of a small dining room of the Santos Palace in Lisbon, which is now the French Embassy. There are 263 plates and 96 dishes, fastened by iron nails which had been made into...
Golden relics from Chiriqui. A paper read before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia on Thursday October 5 (1867)
This article describes the artifacts that where exhibited at the The Numismatic and Antiquarian Society meeting on Oct. 5, 1867. The artifacts were excavated in 1859 from numerous huacas or burying grounds in the province of Chiriqui, Panama.
The Nautilus Exploring Party (1859)
This document is a newspaper clipping from December 10th 1859 that describes several explorers aboard the schooner the "Nautilus." These explorers went to investigate the "gold deposits" that were found in the "Indian" graves in Chiriqui.
Note sur les sepultares indiennes du department de Chiriquí, Panamá (1866)
This article is in Spanish and describes the tombs in Chiriqui, Panama
On the ancient Indian tombs of Chiriqui in Veragua (southwest of Panama), on the Isthmus of Darien (1863)
This article covers the last findings from Columbus last voyage to Vareguas and the findings of the middle late 1800's when this article was written. Although the article centers around the mortuary artifacts and practices, there is a far amount of historical and geographical information about the region both during the time of the authors investigation and from Columbus's encounter with the region.
Some archaeological observations from Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama (1949)
This 1949 article by Wassen describes the authors expedition to Panama and Columbia in 1947 on behalf of the Gothenburg Ethnographic Museum. He carried out a small archaeological investigation in Boquete Chiriqui, manly of surface collections found at the then Elliot recreation resort.