From Coast to Coast: Recent Research in Southern Caribbean and Osa Peninsula, Greater Chiriquí Region

Summary

I present new data of investigations conducted in two almost unexplored zones on both coasts (Pacific and Caribbean) of the Greater Chiriquí Region. An exploratory survey, and test pit excavations of selected sites in the southern coast of Caribbean Costa Rica, allowed recording materials similar to those found on the Pacific coast. This reaffirms the proposed extension of related groups on both sides of the Talamanca mountain range. I provide comments about the relationships maintained between people of the Sixaola valley and the Bay of Almirante; as well as the establishment of the cultural boundary between the archaeological regions of the Central Caribbean and the Greater Chiriquí.

In addition, explorations near the Tigre River, located in the Osa Peninsula, Pacific coast, have provided evidence of two phases of occupation. Of the sites registered, Cantarero is a main center of the Aguas Buenas period. Recent excavations carried out at Cantarero shed light about the development of complexity in the long and still unknown Aguas Buenas period. The documentation of late sites nearby the gold bearing Tigre River, provides elements to discuss relationships with the Diquís delta, based on long distance control of gold sources.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20999