Zenu/ Gran Zenu area (lowland Atlantic/Caribbean cost)
Early phase (5th-10th century AD)
Later Phase (10th-15th century AD)
Hydraulic agriculture / terraforming
Caciques / Cacicas / Mohanes
Isthmus of Darien/ Gran Darien
Darien Figuras
“International Style”
Lost Wax Casting
Antilles / Taino culture
Fray Ramon Pané (1497)
Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles
Arawak / Carib
Caciques (male or female)
Antilles / Taino culture
Nitaínos (nobles) Naborias (commoners) Areytos (feasting events) Duho Matrilineal Cassava/yuca Cassava/yuca
Zemis
Zemi effigy figures/sculptures Yúcahu/Atabey (deities) Deminán (culture hero) Three pointers Elbow stones Stone collars
Bohiques (shamans)
Coho a
Snuff tube, snuff tray
Vomit stick
Caguana
Yucayeque (town)
Batéy/ballgame
Goddess of Caguana
Panama
Gran Coclé style:
Polychrome ceramics
Pedestal plates
Bowls
Dualism/Anatropic designs
Panama: Gran Coclé style
Costuming/Transformation/Performance
Panama: Gran Coclé style
Shamans in transformation, combat, seated or meditative.
Shaman transformation (Labbe, figs. 106, 107, 109, 110).
Animals, Composite Creatures
Panama: Gran Coclé style
Panama: Sitio Conte, Burial 26 (Lothrop); Burial 11 (Mason), El Caño
Isthmus of Darien/Gran Darien
Zenu/Gran Zenu area:
Early 5th-10th century AD
Late 10th-15th century AD
Caciques Cacicas Mohanes In territories: Finzenu Panzenu Zenufana
Zenu/Gran Zenu area
Antilles/Taino culture
Zemi effigy sculptures
Antilles/Taino culture
- Zemi on all four, (Rio fig. 101).
Three pointers, elbow stones and stone collars
Antilles/Taino culture
Caciques & Bohiques
Antilles/Taino culture
Caguana site (Puerto Rico)
Batéy/ballgame
Petroglyphs, Goddess of Caguana