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

Sitio Drago: Caribbean livelihoods and regional connections

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

The project reports material comparisons across neighboring regions rather than an isolated island community. The conch study compares archaeological and later shell samples when evaluating harvesting effects.

Caribbean settlement and historical-ecology context First and second millennia CE, with regional settlement and site-phase chronologies distinguished Ceramics, food remains, geophysical survey and shell comparisons Bocas del Toro, Bocas del Toro, 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

Bocas del Toro, Bocas del Toro, Panama is a modern orientation, not an ancient capital or boundary. Exchange and community organization need not imply one capital or fixed trade territory.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Exchange and community organization need not imply one capital or fixed trade territory. Sitio Drago is not all Bocas del Toro; shell-harvesting models do not rank living peoples or prove uniformly sustainable or destructive behavior.

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.

Regional connections The project reports material comparisons across neighboring regions rather than an isolated island community.

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]
Long-term food questions The conch study compares archaeological and later shell samples when evaluating harvesting effects.

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]
Changing research The laboratory account describes ceramic provenance work as a question under investigation, not a finished map of ethnic borders.

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. Settlement activities

    Different local phases should not be collapsed into the regional settlement estimate.

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  2. Resource use

    Shell samples support historical-ecology questions, not a timeless food pattern.

    [S2]

  3. Collaborative research

    The project records regional fieldwork and training.

    [S1]

  4. Ecology and ceramics

    Separate studies address food procurement and material connections.

    [S3]
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: Ceramics, food remains, geophysical survey and shell comparisons.

Exchange and community organization need not imply one capital or fixed trade territory.

Sitio Drago is not all Bocas del Toro; shell-harvesting models do not rank living peoples or prove uniformly sustainable or destructive behavior.

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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Basada en el contenido aprobado del perfil Las citas utilizan los identificadores de fuentes de abajo Sin contexto de cuenta ni de ADN

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Registro de pruebas

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

    Archaeology in Bocas del Toro

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

  10. S2

    Evidence of size-selective evolution in the fighting conch from prehistoric subsistence harvesting

    Aaron O'Dea, Marian Lynne Shaffer, Douglas R. Doughty, Thomas A. Wake and Felix A. Rodriguez; Proceedings of the Royal Society B · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2014

  11. S3

    New Projects in the STRI Archaeology Labs

    Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Archaeology Lab · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2022

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Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026

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