Feature 94

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Archaeological Feature

Primary Title:

Feature 94

Summary Description:

Not described originally as a Type C grave by Luis Sanchez, Feature 94 is nonetheless a shaft grave, which was clearly cut by a stone-walled oven (Feature 88). Therefore it surely belongs to the same group. Feature 94 had a roundish shaft about 1 m deep and 1.3 m in diameter. The principal occupant (Individual 36) - adult, sex not yet determined - was placed face-up in a flexed position. A shell ornament shaped like long-tailed frog was found in association. It is probably made of Strombus. Scattered around and below the body were three broken ceramic vessels and a broken legged metate. One vessel is a large bowl painted with a stylized crocodile design on the interior (Ciruelo Black-on-Red type). It was “killed” by a sharp blow. A smaller bowl is decorated in black with a stylized turtle design on the interior (also Ciruelo Black-on-Red). The third vessel is large while-slipped bowl with a black-painted circumferential design on the interior (Guábilo Black on Cream). These vessels were broken intentionally and the sherds scattered under and around the body. When Individual 36 was laid in the feature, it disturbed another Individual (38) underneath. Twenty-seven mother-of-pearl plaques and pendants, a bead made out of Prunus sapotilla (a marine gastropod), a small folded gold bead, and six Spondylus artifacts were recovered in association with Individual 36. A human tooth AMS dentine date of 1500 ± BP was obtained (cal 450-640 CE) (Beta-147878) for Individual 36 (the primary flexed burial). Flecks of charcoal around this body were dated to 1380 ± 80 BP (cal 550-800 CE) (I-8638). Ninety-seven Pinctada mazatlanica (mother-of-pearl) artifacts, cut into geometric shapes, were found near Individual 38, together with two Spondylus beads and a modified Tegula pellisserpentis shell. Charcoal flecks found around this body gave a date of 1570 ± 80 BP (cal 340-660 CE). The tooth collagen date for Individual 36 is considered more reliable since carbon fractionattion was determined empirically. It accords well with current knowledge about the chronology of the Cubitá style and Ciruelo Red-on-Black bowls from the Azuero Peninsula and the Pearl Islands.

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PID	Type	Title	Metadata	URL
si_118472		Operation 3. Feature 94. Multiple burial. Type C. Sub-unit 8. Level 120-130 cm. Individual 36	TitleInfo/title Operation 3. Feature 94. Multiple burial. Type C. Sub-unit 8. Level 120-130 cm. Individual 36 Abstract Flexed primary burial, sherds of Ciruelo and Cabimo type bowls, and frog long-tailed frog,made of marine gastropod shell.	Download
si_118473		Operation 3. Feature 94. Multiple burial. Type C. Sub-unit 8. Level 80-120 cm.	TitleInfo/title Operation 3. Feature 94. Multiple burial. Type C. Sub-unit 8. Level 80-120 cm. Abstract Lateral view of Individual 36 showing long-tailed frog of marine gastropod shell.	Download
si_118942		Operation 3, Feature 94, multiple burial, Type C, level 2.06-2.15 m bd 2, view to north-east	TitleInfo/title Operation 3, Feature 94, multiple burial, Type C, level 2.06-2.15 m bd 2, view to north-east Abstract Sherds of bowl on bottom of feature	Download
si_118943		Operation 3, Feature 94, under escudilla (bowl) 2, Multiple burial, Type C, northeast view, smashed ceramic sherds, white mass	TitleInfo/title Operation 3, Feature 94, under escudilla (bowl) 2, Multiple burial, Type C, northeast view, smashed ceramic sherds, white mass	Download
si_118944		Operation 3, Feature 94. multiple burial. Type C, Individual 36	TitleInfo/title Operation 3, Feature 94. multiple burial. Type C, Individual 36 Abstract Primary flexed burials showing metate leg and an unidentified white substance.	Download
si_118945		Operation 3, Feature 94. multiple burial. Type C, Individual 36, Luis Sanchez cleans primary flexed burial of Individual 36	TitleInfo/title Operation 3, Feature 94. multiple burial. Type C, Individual 36, Luis Sanchez cleans primary flexed burial of Individual 36	Download
si_118946		Operation 3, Feature 94, multiple burial, Type C, level 80-120 cm, Individual 36.	TitleInfo/title Operation 3, Feature 94, multiple burial, Type C, level 80-120 cm, Individual 36. Abstract Showing sherds of Cubita style bowls, fragments of a broken metate and a shell frog.	Download
si_118947		Operation 3, Feature 94, multiple burial, Type C, level 80-120 cm, Individual 36.	TitleInfo/title Operation 3, Feature 94, multiple burial, Type C, level 80-120 cm, Individual 36. Abstract Showing sherds of Cubita style bowls, fragments of a broken metate and a shell frog.	Download
si_118948		Operation 3, Feature 94, multiple burial, Type C, level 80-120 cm, Individual 36.	TitleInfo/title Operation 3, Feature 94, multiple burial, Type C, level 80-120 cm, Individual 36. Abstract Showing sherds of Cubita style bowls, fragments of a broken metate and a shell frog.	Download
si_119174		Operation 3, Feature 94, Multiple burial, Type C, Urn 9, level 198-212 cm, BD 2, north view, smashed ceramic sherds	TitleInfo/title Operation 3, Feature 94, Multiple burial, Type C, Urn 9, level 198-212 cm, BD 2, north view, smashed ceramic sherds	Download
si_119175		Operation 3, Feature 94, multiple burial, Type C, showing sherds of Urn 9 and other vessels, level 198-212 cm bd 2	TitleInfo/title Operation 3, Feature 94, multiple burial, Type C, showing sherds of Urn 9 and other vessels, level 198-212 cm bd 2	Download