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Publicación. Julia Mayo, Carlos Mayo and Mercedes Guinea, 2021. Funerary Rituals among the Elite of the Río Grande Chiefdom, Panama,
in Pre-Columbian Art from Central América and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks, pg.331-361,
Colin McEwan and John Hoopes, editors.
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Washington D.C
From the introduction ...
Sitio Conte was understood to be the principal site of the Río Grande chiefdom, while El Caño was interpreted as a related “ceremonial center” (Cooke, Isaza, and Griggs, et al. 2003). Our discovery at El Caño of large graves containing multiple burials with rich mortuary assemblages and offerings now indicates that this was an important cemetery for the Coclé elite and that its ceremonial functions involved the sequence of funerary rituals described in this essay. El Caño boasts sophisticated pottery and artifact assemblages belonging to the Coclé tradition; however, the postburial ritual offerings made here distinguish it from Sitio Conte, where there is no evidence for this practice. Thus, there appear to be significant differences in funerary practices between these two sites.
In this essay, we will describe the funerary rites of an important warrior-chief buried at El Caño one thousand years ago. Our description draws on a close reading of the funerary rites described in sixteenth-century ethnohistoric accounts; this description of the funerary process will, in turn, inform our interpretation of the st...
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