Assessing Agricultural Intensification in Greater Chiriquí during the Aguas Buenas Period
Author(s): Dr. Scott Palumbo
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.
The Aguas Buenas (roughly 300 BC–AD 900) was a period characterized by the growth of small villages and the development of identifiable settlement hierarchies in certain areas. This paper applies a variant of the site catchment analysis originally articulated by Steponaitis (1981) to evaluate the relationship between archaeological site location and soil fertility to consider the relationship between emergent centers and smaller settlements. Two case studies drawn largely from pedestrian survey are explored: the middle Térraba of Costa Rica and the upper Chiriquí Viejo of Panama.
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Assessing Agricultural Intensification in Greater Chiriquí during the Aguas Buenas Period. Dr. Scott Palumbo. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 466929)
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Keywords
General
Intermediate Area
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Subsistence and Foodways
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Survey
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): 32382