Some archaeological observations from Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama

Author(s): Henry Wassén

Year: 1949

Summary

This 1949 article by Wassen describes the authors expedition to Panama and Columbia in 1947 on behalf of the Gothenburg Ethnographic Museum. He carried out a small archaeological investigation in Boquete Chiriqui, manly of surface collections found at the then Elliot recreation resort.

Cite this Record

Some archaeological observations from Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama. Henry Wassén. Etnologiska Studier . (16): 140-192. 1949 ( tDAR id: 4563) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8J101Z9

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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: -82.705; min lat: 6.403 ; max long: -77.607; max lat: 9.969 ;

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