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ID: 8060310
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8060310

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sitio Sierra (deserted settlement)  Sitio Sierra (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 08 08 09 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 8.1368  decimal degrees
Long: 080 34 08 W  degrees minutes   Long: -80.5697  decimal degrees

Note: Remains of a prehistoric agricultural village along the Río Santa María. Excavations indicate that the village was about 45 hectares in size, and revealed a cemetery with 25 burials, pottery, tools, and beads, as well as evidence of chipped stone tool production. Based on surveys, scholars suggest that the maximum population of the site was 900, and it was active between the end of the first millennium BCE through at least 350 CE.

Names:
Sitio Sierra (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Panamá (nation)  ........  Panamá (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Herrera (province)  ............  Herrera (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Sitio Sierra (deserted settlement)  ................  Sitio Sierra (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
Pre-Columbian (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Sitio Sierra..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Linares, Ancient Panama (1977)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Haller, Río Parita Valley (2004)
..................  Linares, Ancient Panama (1977)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Haller, Río Parita Valley (2004)

 

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