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

Playa Don Bernardo: island livelihoods and changing habitats

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

The animal study examines marine remains alongside other foods rather than an exclusively terrestrial economy. The retrospective distinguishes the 2009 investigation from later field seasons and published interpretations.

Island foodways and environmental-history context Mid-Holocene island contexts, broadly approximately 6,000 years ago; sampled phases qualified Animal and plant remains, stone tools and sediment sequences Panama City, Panama (distant institutional orientation) (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

Panama City, Panama (distant institutional orientation) is a modern orientation, not an ancient capital or boundary. Island communities made local choices within wider connections; one deposit is not their whole political history.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Island communities made local choices within wider connections; one deposit is not their whole political history. Playa Don Bernardo dolphin procurement and environmental-change models are interpretations; no empty-island discovery, exact hunting method or ancestry conclusion is supplied.

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.

Diverse food evidence The animal study examines marine remains alongside other foods rather than an exclusively terrestrial economy.

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]
Research sequence The retrospective distinguishes the 2009 investigation from later field seasons and published interpretations.

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]
Connected livelihoods The regional synthesis places plant use and island adaptation together without making one cause explain all change.

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. Island activities

    Sampled material concerns a changing island setting, not an uncontested first voyage.

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  2. Changing food remains

    Different levels require separate environmental and procurement explanations.

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  3. Field investigations

    The institutional account describes repeated work rather than one complete discovery.

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  4. Marine remains studied

    The research evaluated several procurement possibilities.

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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: Animal and plant remains, stone tools and sediment sequences.

Island communities made local choices within wider connections; one deposit is not their whole political history.

Playa Don Bernardo dolphin procurement and environmental-change models are interpretations; no empty-island discovery, exact hunting method or ancestry conclusion is supplied.

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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Baseada no conteúdo aprovado do perfil As citações usam os identificadores de fontes abaixo Sem contexto de conta ou DNA

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

    Exploitation of dolphins (Cetacea: Delphinidae) at a 6000 yr old Preceramic site in the Pearl Island archipelago, Panama

    Richard G. Cooke and colleagues; Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2016 volume; online 2015

  10. S2

    A guiding force in archaeology

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

  11. S3

    Mucho más que un puente terrestre: Avances de la arqueología en Panamá

    Juan Guillermo Martín and Tomás Mendizábal, editors; Novo Art, Asociación de Antropología e Historia de Panamá repository · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2021

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Revisión editorial: 20 outubro 2026

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