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<< Other Photo Pages >> Cerro Brujo - Ancient Village or Settlement in Panama

Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 19 July 2017  Page Views: 3287

Multi-periodSite Name: Cerro Brujo Alternative Name: CA-3
Country: Panama
NOTE: This site is 300.242 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
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Cerro Brujo
Cerro Brujo submitted by dodomad : Site in Panama. Anthony J. Ranere (shoveling), field director and ford Foundation trainee, starting a new trench and screening the top statum. Photo Credit: Penn Museum. Follow yellow link at left for full story (Vote or comment on this photo)
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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Oldest Cancer Case in Central America Discovered by bat400 on Tuesday, 06 June 2017
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"On a shelf in Panama City, a human skeleton was bundled into a bag within a cardboard box for 46 years. The bones had been looked at once in 1991 and then shelved again. Then one day Nicole Smith-Guzmán, a bioarchaeologist and a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) opened the box and noticed that there was something a little bit different about these bones. The humerus of one arm featured a lumpy calcified mass.

"This turned out to be the oldest known case of cancer in Central America.

"The bones had been excavated in the Panamanian province of Bocas del Toro in 1970 by the now-deceased archaeologist Olga Linares, who had set out to study the agricultural practices of people in the area.

"The bones belonged to a teenager who was probably between 14 and 16-years-old, based in part on the light wear of the teeth, absence of third molars and the degree of fusion between the bones that form the cranium. It was probably a female, but that is hard to say for certain without a pelvis and until DNA analysis comes back. Radiocarbon dating shows that she died about 700 years ago.

"'We see that the people who buried them cared about this person,” Smith-Guzmán says. “This wasn't just discarding the body of a diseased person. We think this was a ritual burial. We can tell that the culture has a sort of ancestor veneration. As well as a care for diseased individuals. They obviously had to be taking care of this person for a while and buried them with these objects of ritual significance as well.'

"The surviving objects buried with the body include several ceramic vessels and a trumpet made from the shell of an Atlantic triton."

For more, please see Smithsonian.com, 30 May 2017, Jackson Landers.
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    Cerro Brujo - A Tiny Guaymi Hamlet of the Past by Andy B on Wednesday, 14 June 2017
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    Olga Linares De Sapir wrote (in 1971) Going back further in time, Bocas is rich in archaeological sites. Numerous shell-middens dating roughly from A.D. 500 to the time of the Conquest are found in the Bahia de Almirante on ridges away from the coast, at elevations ranging between 300 and 1000 feet.

    Indians and mestizos living today in Aguacate Peninsula have noticed these shell heaps oddly placed far away from the coast. Thanks to their aid as guides, and later as work­men, it was possible in 1969 to locate the site of Cerro Brujo (CA-3), approximately two kilometers inland from the coast, on a ridge five hundred feet above sea level. During the following season, this spot became the seat of our excavations.

    Cerro Brujo (CA-3) consists of five scat­tered shell-midden clusters within an area roughly one kilometer in diameter.

    More in Penn Museum Expedition magazine first published in 1971
    https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/cerro-brujo/

    Incidentally Penn Museum have put online all the articles from their Expedition Magazine from the present day right back to 1958 - now that's what I call impressive digitisation!
    https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/
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