Compositional and Technological Analysis of Panamanian Colonial Utilitarian Wares

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In Panama, as in other regions of the Caribbean and Latin America, several archaeologists have reported the presence of colonial utilitarian wares, also known as Colono-Indian ware, creole ware, and coarse hand-made earthenware. Previous research on this ware focuses on refining the typologies and identifying traits that could be related to African, Spanish, and Indigenous traditions. Inspired on recent research that approach production and consumption of colonial technologies as contextually constructed, I study the configuration of new communities of practice for the production of pottery in colonial Panama. Compositional and technological analysis through neutron activation and petrographic methods of 192 sherds from Central and Eastern Panama inform the recipes and techniques used for ceramic production during the precolumbian and colonial periods. This study provides new data to address the production and consumption of Panamanian utilitarian wares beyond the identification of identity and definition of typologies. The research gives new insights to understand the contribution of non-Europeans to the construction of colonial Panama.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 32991