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Gran Coclé

Central Panamanian chiefdoms whose lords were buried at Sitio Conte and El Caño under hammered gold plaques and polychrome ceramics.

Persisted as warring caciques (Parita, Natá) into the 16th century before Spanish conquest shattered the goldworking centres.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Gran Coclé — the shape you scrub through changes in 150 · 701 · 1101.

Moments from the Chronicle

• 150 Ranked chiefdoms rise at Parita Bay Gran Coclé society grows socially stratified along Panama's Parita Bay, beginning the polychrome ceramic and goldworking traditions of central Panama.

Further reading

• The Archaeology of Lower Central America Doris Z Stone · 1937

  The standard synthesis of lower Central American archaeology, covering the goldworking Gran Cocle chiefdoms and Sitio Conte.

• Paths to Central American Prehistory Frederick W. Lange · 1996

  Regional synthesis placing Gran Coclé within isthmian prehistory (broad context).

Sources

• Gran Coclé — Wikipedia