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

Cerro Juan Díaz: ceramics, households, and archive care

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

The institutional history describes repeated activity over many centuries, not one short elite event. The symposium contribution treats La Mula pottery analysis as ongoing work rather than completed ethnic identification.

Long settlement sequence and collections context Broadly approximately 200 BCE–sixteenth century CE; component-specific dates distinguished Ceramic phases, activity deposits, food remains and excavation archives La Villa de Los Santos, Los Santos, 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.
Resumo

Ferramentas, práticas alimentares, casas e paisagens construídas

Conexões de terras altas, fluviais, insulares, do Pacífico e do Caribe

La Villa de Los Santos, Los Santos, Panama is a modern orientation, not an ancient capital or boundary. Changing local activities and connections do not imply one stable regional authority.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Changing local activities and connections do not imply one stable regional authority. Cerro Juan Díaz's long sequence and looting require contextual scrutiny; ceramic styles cannot reconstruct every identity or authorize burial details.

Transformação imperial e colonial, património vivo e recepção 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.

Long sequence The institutional history describes repeated activity over many centuries, not one short elite event.

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]
Ceramic questions The symposium contribution treats La Mula pottery analysis as ongoing work rather than completed ethnic identification.

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]
Living collaboration The 2024 account describes outreach and collection care involving local participants.

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]
Sequência histórica

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.

  1. Early components

    Individual ceramic and occupation contexts require separate dating.

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  2. Changing activities

    The long sequence is not one contemporaneous community.

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  3. Long-term project

    Investigations brought regional researchers and collaborators together.

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  4. Collections revisited

    Ceramic research and local interpretation continued without making the archive complete.

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Cultura e língua

Práticas alimentares, água, artesanato, trabalho doméstico e poder

Línguas mencionadas neste perfil

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

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

Research focus: Ceramic phases, activity deposits, food remains and excavation archives.

Changing local activities and connections do not imply one stable regional authority.

Cerro Juan Díaz's long sequence and looting require contextual scrutiny; ceramic styles cannot reconstruct every identity or authorize burial details.

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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Interpretação de similaridade genética gerada por IA, sem comprovação de ancestralidade. Conteúdo informativo, sem caráter de orientação profissional.

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Fontes usadas nesta 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

    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

  10. S2

    BCI 100: symposium program, La Mula pottery study at Cerro Juan Díaz

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

  11. S3

    STRI Archaeology News, Dec 2024 / Noticias de arqueología de STRI, Dic 2024

    Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Archaeology Lab · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2024-12-22

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Revisión editorial: 20 outubro 2026

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