Report on the Huacals or Ancient Graveyards of Chiriqui

Author(s): King Merritt

Year: 1860

Summary

Describes an 1858 Discovery by two Spanish creole farmers in Chirique of a cash of golden artifacts and eventually a graveyard. The two excavated the artifacts without being discovered until May of 1859. After they were discovered thousands of people looted the graveyard located in Huscal (25 miles from the current city of David). Thousands of pounds of gold were reportedly taken from the gravesite. This document also contains bulletins from the subsequent meetings.

Cite this Record

Report on the Huacals or Ancient Graveyards of Chiriqui. King Merritt. Bulletin of the American Ethnological Society: 3-14. 1860 ( tDAR id: 4559) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8VH5MRV

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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: -82.09; min lat: 6.577 ; max long: -77.959; max lat: 9.969 ;

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