Mortuary Feasting at Sitio Drago, Panama and Elsewhere in Lower Central America
Author(s): Thomas Wake; Lana Martin; Tomas Mendizabal
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The archaeological materials recovered from a central burial mound at Sitio Drago, Panama are diverse and include many well-preserved vertebrate and invertebrate faunal remains. I examine these materials in context with the artifacts recovered in direct association with four coral slab tombs located at the heart of the site and then compare the observed patterns with local and regional burial patterns and information concerning ritual behavior associated with the dead. various regional similarities are noted and discussed in terms of a broader circum-Talamancan interaction sphere.
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Mortuary Feasting at Sitio Drago, Panama and Elsewhere in Lower Central America. Thomas Wake, Lana Martin, Tomas Mendizabal. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449812)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
Central America and Northern South America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -92.153; min lat: -4.303 ; max long: -50.977; max lat: 18.313 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 25073