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The stone industry encountered in the cemeteries shows affinities 

 primarily toward Chiriqui in its triangular cross section points, celts 

 with diamond-shape cross section and completely polished surface, 

 and ornately carved three- and four-legged metates. 



Although a sequence based on stratigraphy is at present still lacking 

 for the Veraguas area, grave associations, as pointed out by Lothrop 

 (1950, p. 76) would include a span covering at least the Early and Late 

 Code Phases. The date of A.D. 782 for a stela at Copan, under which 

 was found a gold figurine of probable Veraguas origin, would be well 

 within the Code time span as revised by Venado Beach dates. As 

 for the Azuero styles, Wassen in 1960 illustrates four Macaracas type 

 vessels (Higo and Pica-pica varieties) which were associated in a grave 

 at La Pena with typical Veraguas half jars and ribbon-legged vessels, 

 and Mahler (1961) also illustrates Macaracas type vessels from a grave 

 at the same site associated with Veraguas plain ware. The outside 

 limits of the sequence as far as I know are also suggested in the Mahler 

 article, the earliest being Santa Maria Phase ceramics noted in private 

 collections in the area and the terminal date of Conquest or later 

 suggested by the discovery in two instances of iron tools in typical 

 deep shaft graves. The finding of El Hatillo type vessels (Espala 

 variety) (Lothrop, 1942, fig. 229; 1950, fig. 134) and the affinities in 

 shape between the double-rimmed bird effigy jars and Nispero variety 

 vessels from Parita would also indicate a post Late Code time period. 



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Linne's report on the Nordenskiold expedition survey and excava- 

 tions along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Panama is still the 

 primary work on the area. In fact, the only accounts of excavations 

 in Panama east of the Canal Zone published since 1929, of which 

 I am aware, are the preliminary description of the site of Utive on the 

 upper Pacora River (Stii'ling, 1950) and Cruxent's (1958) report of 

 excavations undertaken in 1954 in an attempt to trace Balboa's 

 route across the Isthmus. Neither of these later works suggests 

 a sequence for the region. On the Pearl Islands, however, Linne 

 found two types of sites; one with round dwelling sites in middens 

 which contained shells of locally extinct species of moUusk * and un- 

 painted pottery, and another with rectangular dwelling areas char- 

 acterized by both plain and polychrome pottery. Linne postulates 

 an early chronological position for the round dwelling sites, on the 

 basis of the absence of painted pottery and the presence of the cold 

 water moUusks. Linne notes both the lack of ceramic affinities of the 



* Slrombus peruvianus with a distribution from Peru to western Colombia, Ostrea chilensis normally 

 found from Chiloe Island to Ecuador, and Solen (Tagelus) dombey occurring from Valdivia to Tumbez in 

 Peru. These distributiofis are from W. H. Dall in 1909 as cited in Linn§, 1929, p. 129. 



