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Cerro Mangote: A Preceramic Site in Panama*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charles R. McGimsey III
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Until about 25 years ago nearly all that was known of the prehistory of Panama was the result of careful studies based on somewhat haphazard excavation (MacCurdy 1911; Holmes 1888). Almost without exception detailed and often gross provenience data were completely lacking. This unhappy situation was attacked in the late 1920s by Linné (1929). Beginning in the 1930's Lothrop succeeded in outlining and describing a number of culture areas covering most of Panama's Pacific watershed (Lothrop 1937, 1942, 1950). These areas of necessity reflected only the broad picture at the time of and immediately preceding the initial Spanish entradas for, although it was to be assumed that there was internal variation within each of these areas and considerable time depth for the country as a whole, no data on this were available.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 2Part1 , October 1956 , pp. 151 - 161
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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Footnotes

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This work was made possible by grants from the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, and a travel grant from the United Fruit Company. The field work was conducted under the auspices of the National Museum of Panama and with the cooperation of its Director, Dr. Alejandro Mendez.

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