Isthmian Worlds: Communities, Landscapes, and Connections in Costa Rica and Panama
Panamanian Pacific and foothill contexts (orientation only) · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Aguadulce: shelter archives and plant processing

Reviewed community and place names are preserved where supported; no otherwise unknown ancient self-designation is invented.

The 2000 study identifies root-crop and maize evidence on selected tools, expanding inquiry beyond durable seeds alone. The later project distinguishes environments and sampled crop dispersals rather than one uniform agricultural revolution.

Plant-food and shelter-evidence context Preceramic and early ceramic contexts; studied plant residues approximately 7,000–5,000 BP in the 2000 report Starch grains, phytoliths, grinding tools and dated sediment associations Aguadulce, Coclé, Panama (orientation only): approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting or travel permission is implied.
Resumen

Herramientas, prácticas alimentarias, hogares y paisajes construidos

Conexiones de tierras altas, fluviales, insulares, del Pacífico y del Caribe

Aguadulce, Coclé, Panama is a modern orientation, not an ancient capital or boundary. Food-processing evidence samples household work rather than defining a single farming nation.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Food-processing evidence samples household work rather than defining a single farming nation. Aguadulce starch identification and dates need sample controls; plant use is not proof of a single origin of cultivation or ancestry.

Transformación imperial y colonial, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority; this atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent, recognition or membership. Material styles and settlement evidence cannot identify every ancient speaker; living Indigenous language and membership authority remain distinct. Events after 1600 CE and modern research, conservation and stewardship are dated separately from the main historical context.

Plant foods The 2000 study identifies root-crop and maize evidence on selected tools, expanding inquiry beyond durable seeds alone.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Regional comparison The later project distinguishes environments and sampled crop dispersals rather than one uniform agricultural revolution.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Archive history STRI's retrospective records repeated field and laboratory work, not one discovery that settled all early chronology.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Food work

    Tool residues support plant-processing questions while association and preservation remain essential.

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  2. Changing contexts

    Crop movement and pottery adoption need not occur simultaneously everywhere.

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  3. Further excavation

    The research history records renewed sampling and controls.

    [S3]

  4. Residue studies

    Separate studies added evidence and regional comparisons.

    [S2]
Cultura e idioma

Prácticas alimentarias, agua, artesanía, trabajo doméstico y poder

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • Material styles and settlement evidence cannot identify every ancient speaker; living Indigenous language and membership authority remain distinct.

Familia lingüística: Language, material classification, political allegiance, residence and living identity are distinct; this record does not classify every ancient speaker.

Research focus: Starch grains, phytoliths, grinding tools and dated sediment associations.

Food-processing evidence samples household work rather than defining a single farming nation.

Aguadulce starch identification and dates need sample controls; plant use is not proof of a single origin of cultivation or ancestry.

No artifact, rock-art, sacred-site, burial or human-remains imagery or restricted knowledge is reproduced.

DNAGENICS provides AI-assisted, source-checked educational paraphrases. Cited authors, institutions and communities did not author or endorse this atlas. Public availability does not establish cultural consent or permission to reproduce objects, sacred knowledge or human remains. No imagery is reproduced. Specialist and community review is recommended; use the website contact channel for corrections, rights concerns or removal requests.

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Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

Prefer Indigenous governments, museums, heritage organizations, accountable field projects and public heritage institutions. Give source title, author or organization, date and stable link. Brief summaries are DNAGENICS AI-assisted interpretations, not author or community endorsement, reproduction permission or community review.

  1. C1

    History: archaeology at STRI

    Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Archaeology Lab · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  2. C2

    Comisión Nacional de Asuntos Indígenas: documentos

    Comisión Nacional de Asuntos Indígenas, Costa Rica · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  3. C3

    Taphonomy at two contiguous coastal rockshelters in Panama: Preliminary observations focusing on fishing and curing fish

    Diana Rocío Carvajal-Contreras, Richard Cooke and Máximo Jiménez; Quaternary International · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2008 volume; online 2007

  4. C4

    Starch grains reveal early root crop horticulture in the Panamanian tropical forest

    Dolores R. Piperno, Anthony J. Ranere, Irene Holst and Patricia Hansell; Nature · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2000

  5. C5

    Concheros en Bahía Culebra

    Felipe Solís del Vecchio and Anayensy Herrera Villalobos; Museo Nacional de Costa Rica · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  6. C6

    Línea Vieja: monumentalidad arqueológica

    Ricardo Vázquez Leiva; Museo Nacional de Costa Rica · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  7. C7

    Informe de labores 2020: Sitio Museo Finca 6

    Museo Nacional de Costa Rica · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2020

  8. C8

    From Excavation to Online Exhibition: A 30+ year Journey at La Mula-Sarigua

    Patricia Hansell; Cuadernos de Antropología, Universidad de Costa Rica · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2019

  9. S1

    Starch grains reveal early root crop horticulture in the Panamanian tropical forest

    Dolores R. Piperno, Anthony J. Ranere, Irene Holst and Patricia Hansell; Nature · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2000

  10. S2

    Starch grain evidence for the preceramic dispersals of maize and root crops into tropical dry and humid forests of Panama

    Ruth Dickau, Anthony J. Ranere and Richard G. Cooke; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2007

  11. S3

    A guiding force in archaeology

    Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2023

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Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026

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