Golden relics from Chiriqui. A paper read before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia on Thursday October 5

Author(s): Alfred Taylor

Year: 1867

Summary

This article describes the artifacts that where exhibited at the The Numismatic and Antiquarian Society meeting on Oct. 5, 1867. The artifacts were excavated in 1859 from numerous huacas or burying grounds in the province of Chiriqui, Panama.

Cite this Record

Golden relics from Chiriqui. A paper read before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia on Thursday October 5. Alfred Taylor. The Numismatic and Antiquarian Society: 75-80. 1867 ( tDAR id: 4562) ; doi:10.6067/XCV84Q7S1T

URL: www.jstor.org


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: -82.793; min lat: 6.577 ; max long: -77.256; max lat: 10.315 ;

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
taylor_1867.pdf 577.84kb Oct 16, 2010 10:43:14 AM Public