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Submitted January 18, 2022
Published 2022-01-18

Artículos académicos

Vol. 1 No. 3 (2022): Revista Contacto

The Use of Maritime Spaces by the pre-Columbian Ancestors of Coiba and Cabo in the Coiba Archipelago, Panama


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Published: 2022-01-18

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Isaza Aizpurúa, I. I. (2022). The Use of Maritime Spaces by the pre-Columbian Ancestors of Coiba and Cabo in the Coiba Archipelago, Panama. Revista Contacto, 1(3), 38–77. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/contacto/article/view/2624

Abstract

Archaeological and multidisciplinary investigations in the coastal and insular areas of the Isthmus of Panama have shown that the human groups that colonized it and gradually evolved into social structures at the level of chiefdoms, took advantage of the abundance and diversity of fluvial, coastal, insular and pelagic habitats near their places of habitation in a mixed home economy based on the consumption of cultigens, hunting and fishing since 8000 years ago. This article will focus on describing and interpreting three types of pre-Columbian cultural features that support some aspects of maritime life described in the sixteenth-century chronicles. Among these, the fishing methods used, such as fish weirs adjacent to beaches exposed to variable tides, the preparation of fish for preservation and exchange, in addition to the diversity of environments used and variability in the diet. On the other hand, the stylistic analysis of ceramics, product of archaeological prospections and excavations led by the author, suggest that the pre-Columbian ancestors of those who politically controlled the Coiba Archipelago at the time of European contact, the quevís Cabo and Coiba, were culturally simultaneously with the continental groups of two spheres of cultural interaction particularly between ca. 500 – 1000 AD

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