Reassessment of Population Density in Late Precolumbian Central Caribbean Panama
Author(s): Carlos Fitzgerald-Bernal; Alvaro Brizuela-Casimir; Freddy Rodríguez-Saza
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Advances and New Perspectives in the Isthmo-Colombian Area" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Using radiometric and settlement survey data from an area with 100% survey coverage in the rain-forested lowlands of the Caribbean watershed of Colón, Panama, we present the results of an analysis of site distribution and 14C dates to calculate population density. The archaeological data is compared with previous population assessments in the literature and controlled ethnographic and ethnohistoric information in order to better understand the population history of that section of the isthmus (mostly unpopulated since the sixteenth century) and comment on the possibilities of reconstructing the population dynamics of chiefdoms in pre- and postcontact Central and Eastern Panama ("Gran Coclé" and "Gran Darién" regions).
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Reassessment of Population Density in Late Precolumbian Central Caribbean Panama. Carlos Fitzgerald-Bernal, Alvaro Brizuela-Casimir, Freddy Rodríguez-Saza. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 466927)
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Keywords
General
Chiefdoms
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Dating Techniques: Radiometric
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demography
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Intermediate Area
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): 32463