Gold-Hunters in Chiriqui

Year: 1859

Summary

The 1859 newspaper article describes the arrival in Chiriqui of two explorers and chronicles the "trilling" story of their explorations in the region. This article also compares the gold fever that was experienced during the California Gold rush to the gold rush in Chiriqui--"alleged discovery of Second California."

Cite this Record

Gold-Hunters in Chiriqui. The New York Times. 1859 ( tDAR id: 4313) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8ZW1JWV

URL: www.nytimes.com


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: -81.914; min lat: 7.014 ; max long: -79.102; max lat: 9.796 ;

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