Ladd] PARITA AND SANTA MARIA ARCHEOLOGY, PANAMA 19 



CERAMIC 

 DATE PHASE GROUPS TYPES 



Modern 

 Conquest 



2000 B.C. 



5000 B.C. 



La Arena 



El Tigre 

 Herrera 



Late Coc\6 



Early Code 



Santa Maria 



Sarigua 



Monagrillo 



Cerro Mangote 



Azuero 



Azuero-Cocle 



Cocl6 



Aristide 



GAP 



Lithic, 

 ramie 



Pre-Ce- 



La Arena Plain 

 La Arena Red 



El Tigre Plain 



El Hatillo Polychrome 

 Parita Polychrome 

 Red and Cream 

 Delgado Red 



Calabaza Polychrome 



Macaracas Polychrome 

 Late Code styles 



at Sitio Conte r 



Smoked Ware 

 Red Line (Red Daubed) 

 Ddgado Red (?) 



Early Cocl6 styles 



at Sitio Conte 

 Gir6n Polychrome 

 Smoked Ware 

 Red Line (Red Daubed) 



Escota Polychrome 



Escotd, Red 



Escota Plain 



Gir6n Polychrome 



Gir6n Red 



Gir6n Plain 



Plastic decoration 



Red Line (Red Daubed) 



Sarigua Plain 

 Sarigua Applique 

 Sarigua Shell Stamped 

 Sarigua Punctated 

 Sarigua Striated 



Monagrillo Plain 

 Monagrillo Red 

 Monagrillo Incised 

 Monagrillo Thin Yellow 



Pebble tools 



Chart 2. — Code region 



Panama with a carbon-14 date of roughly 2,000 B.C. and the 

 Cerro Mangote site pushed the archeological horizon back to a pre- 

 ceramic stone complex with a date of 4853 ±100 B.C. (McGimsey, 

 1956; Willey, 1958). 



Recapitulating the culture history for this area of Panama we begin 

 with the Cerro Mangote material characterized by a crude chopper 



