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tions by interested amateurs. In that decade, however, the Peabody 

 Museum of Harvard University sponsored extensive excavations in 

 Code Province under the direction of Henry B. Roberts and Samuel 

 K. Lothrop. These resulted in Lothrop's two volumes (1937, 1942) 

 which presented not only a sensitive and extremely thorough descrip- 

 tion of the rich ceremonial remains uncovered at the Sitio Conte, but 

 also the first chronological scheme for any area of Panama based on 

 field excavation and the first systematic sm'vey of the archeology of 

 Code and Herrera provinces. In the same decade, Linne reported 

 the results of a small but careful tomb excavation in ChiriquI (Linne, 

 1936) and J. Alden Mason (1942) undertook further excavations at 

 Sitio Conte in 1940. 



Lothrop's interest continued, resulting in his 1950 publication of 

 a description of the archeology of southern Veraguas based on a 

 study of museum collections and a few small-scale excavations. How- 

 ever, no additions to the chronology so far established were made 

 until the 1950's. This decade saw more serious archeological investi- 

 gation and publication for the Panama area than at any time since 

 the period of Holmes and MacCurdy. Lothrop undertook excava- 

 tions at Venado Beach, the findings of which are soon to be published. 

 The Smithsonian Institution expeditions in 1948 and 1949, under the 

 direction of Matthew W. Stirling, excavated in the Parita Bay area, 

 at Utive near the Pacora River east of the Canal Zone, at La Pita 

 in Veraguas, and at Barriles in ChiriquI. These were followed by a 

 Harvard expedition to the Parita area in 1952. Much of the Parita 

 material has been published (Willey, 1951; Willey and McGimsey, 

 1952, 1954; and Willey and Stoddard, 1954) while other portions of it 

 are in preparation or have been published in a prehminary fashion 

 (Stu-hng, 1949, 1950). In addition, McGimsey (1956) excavated the 

 preceramic site of Cerro Mangote in the same area, thereby extending 

 the range of Panama archeology back to about 5000 B.C. The 

 above-listed publications of Willey, Stoddard, and McGimsey, along 

 with Ladd, 1957, provided a relative chronology for early ceramics 

 at Monagrillo and intermediate phases (with some gaps) up to the 

 Code sequence at Sitio Conte. 



In recent years Marshall has published the analysis of a museum 

 collection from Far Fan Beach in the Canal Zone (Marshall, 1949), 

 Wassen (1960) and Mahler (1961) have both published the results 

 of grave collections or excavations in Veraguas, and Haberland (1956, 

 1960) has given preliminary publication to his excavations in the 

 ChiriquI area of Panama. Feriz (1959) has also published the results 

 of two small-scale excavations in which he took part in the Parita 

 area and in ChiriquI. In addition, the amateur archeologists who 

 have long played an important role in the archeology of Panama 



