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Multi-periodSite Name: Cerro Brujo Alternative Name: CA-3Country: Panama
NOTE: This site is 342.016 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Cauchero Nearest Village: Pueblo Nuevo
Latitude: 9.200000N Longitude: 82.199W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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A Pre-Columbian farm and hunter gatherer settlement two kilometers inland on a ridge 150 m above sea level in Bocas del Toro, Panama Shell middens and other remains indicate multiple households with two occupations: aprox 600 CE, based on ceramic typology and chronology, and an occupation between 780 and 1252 CE (based on four radiocarbon dates inferred from charcoal in middens.)
Cerro Brujo (Witch Hill) is part of Bocas del Toro, western Panama. The area's people were contacted by Columbus' fourth voyage, and at the time they lived in isolated hamlets along ridges and rivers as opposed to living directly on the coast. Then, as now, tropical conditions and a year round "wet" season are normal.
The hill and its middens were excavated in early 1970's (Linares De Sapir) revealing two occupations, the second of an extended nature. Finished stone tools (basalts from highland sources, further inland) with very little evidence of working stone on the site, ceramics, and food remains were discovered. Remains included manatee, fish, turtles, large birds (cormorants,) armadillo, large rodents (agouti and paca,) peccary, Virginia deer, and 25 kinds of mollusks.
Skeletal remains excavated out of the middens were not recognized as being later than the occupation and have been suggested as a potential familial tie of later people to the Cerro Brujo site. (Smith-Guzmána.)
Sources:
"A probable primary malignant bone tumor in a pre-Columbian human humerus from Cerro Brujo, Bocas del Toro, Panamá", International Journal of Paleopathology, Nicole E. Smith-Guzmána, Jeffrey A. Toretskyb, Jason Tsaic, d, Richard G. Cookea. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2017.05.005
Linares De Sapir, .Olga, "Cerro Brujo" Expedition Magazine 13.2 (January 1971): n. pag. Expedition Magazine. Penn Museum, January 1971 Web. 06 Jun 2017
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