As its name implies, this project takes a deep history approach to the Darién Province of Panama, a region that is often problematically portrayed as a primeval ‘gap’. Darién Profundo currently partners with community members in Yaviza, El Real, Metetí, Mogue, La Palma, Punta Alegre, Chepigana and Garachiné, as well as a team of ecologists from the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, to document the archaeological and ecological history of the threatened wetland ecosystem of Matusaragatí and advocate for its protection.
Darién Profundo: Community Archaeology and Historical Ecology in Eastern Panama
Streamed live on May 5, 2020 as part of the “Ask an Archaeologist” series, co-sponsored by the Archaeological Research Facility and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
