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

La Mula-Sarigua: multiple occupations and landscape change

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

The archive traces salt-flat sediment and vegetation change rather than a permanently barren landscape. Hansell's retrospective explains how excavation records became an online research resource.

Open-air settlement and geomorphological context Early tool comparisons and later ceramic occupations; first-millennium BCE contexts separately evaluated Surface distributions, test excavations, lithic production and ceramic sequences Parita, Herrera, 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

Parita, Herrera, Panama is a modern orientation, not an ancient capital or boundary. Successive work areas and occupations are not one unchanging town or political population.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Successive work areas and occupations are not one unchanging town or political population. La Mula-West early tools and La Mula-Sarigua ceramic contexts require separation; the modern desert label is not an ancient environmental diagnosis.

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.

Not a timeless desert The archive traces salt-flat sediment and vegetation change rather than a permanently barren landscape.

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]
Sampling history Hansell's retrospective explains how excavation records became an online research resource.

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]
Multiple activities STRI distinguishes settlement and geomorphological questions from nearby early-tool investigations.

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. Association matters

    Early surface finds cannot date all later settlement material.

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  2. Settlement activity

    Sampled deposits support a local ceramic sequence, not a single founding year.

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  3. Survey and testing

    Hansell's program sampled different areas and materials.

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  4. Archive reconsidered

    The retrospective follows the record from fieldwork to digital interpretation.

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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: Surface distributions, test excavations, lithic production and ceramic sequences.

Successive work areas and occupations are not one unchanging town or political population.

La Mula-West early tools and La Mula-Sarigua ceramic contexts require separation; the modern desert label is not an ancient environmental diagnosis.

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

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  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

    La-Mula-Sarigua

    Smithsonian Institution, Archaeological Investigations in Panama · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  10. S2

    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

  11. S3

    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

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Revisión editorial: 20 outubro 2026

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