New Phylogenetic Information from Ancient DNA for Central Panamá

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

New interpretations of Precolumbian Panamanian archaeological sequences and regions are provided. Results from ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses of remains from the site of Panamá Viejo, Panamá, are compared with a multiple burial found in the vicinity of La Pintada in Coclé, Panamá. The Panamá Viejo materials are classified as haplogroup A2 and include sub-haplogroups A2af and A2ad that link them to other "Chibchan" groups in Central (Greater Coclé) and Western (Greater Chiriquí) Panamá. The La Pintada samples date from the AD 750-950, the Conte Style Late Ceramic Period, and are the first genetic assessments for Greater Coclé whereas the Panamá Viejo samples are somewhat later (AD 1300-1500). This allows us to compare the supposed break in the sequence after AD 1000 that has been proposed to account for the less "Central" character of the ceramics of Panamá Viejo and vicinity with what appears to be a genetic continuity. Finally, I present a discussion of the phylogeny of Buglé, Ngäbe and Guna in the context of the aDNA markers found both in the Panamá Viejo and La Pintada samples.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 26145