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

Cueva de los Ladrones: food and pottery sequences

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

The ceramic study distinguishes Monagrillo material from underlying preceramic deposits at Ladrones. Regional archaeobotanical work compares sampled food remains rather than equating pottery with the beginning of cultivation.

Shelter subsistence and ceramic-transition context Holocene preceramic and early ceramic contexts; individual associations distinguished Stone tools, sampled plant evidence and stratified ceramic comparisons Penonomé, 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

Penonomé, Coclé, Panama is a modern orientation, not an ancient capital or boundary. A shelter sequence does not demonstrate one permanent village, language or political authority.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

A shelter sequence does not demonstrate one permanent village, language or political authority. Cueva de los Ladrones is not Cueva Bustamante; pottery above earlier deposits does not prove automatic replacement of people.

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.

Stratigraphic comparison The ceramic study distinguishes Monagrillo material from underlying preceramic deposits at Ladrones.

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]
Plant evidence Regional archaeobotanical work compares sampled food remains rather than equating pottery with the beginning of cultivation.

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]
Investigation history STRI recounts Bird and Cooke's shelter work as part of a changing research program.

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. Earlier activities

    Deposits before the ceramic horizon need their own chronology.

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  2. Pottery in the sequence

    Ceramic change cannot by itself identify new inhabitants or a single language.

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  3. Shelter investigated

    The institutional retrospective describes the investigators' work.

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  4. Evidence compared

    Plant and ceramic studies addressed different kinds of evidence.

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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: Stone tools, sampled plant evidence and stratified ceramic comparisons.

A shelter sequence does not demonstrate one permanent village, language or political authority.

Cueva de los Ladrones is not Cueva Bustamante; pottery above earlier deposits does not prove automatic replacement of people.

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.

Guía de investigación con IA

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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

    Inferring provenance, manufacturing technique, and firing temperatures of the Monagrillo ware (3520-1300 cal BC), Panama's first pottery

    Fumie Iizuka, Richard G. Cooke, Lesley Frame and Pamela B. Vandiver; Craft and Science, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2014

  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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