page_title: El Caño Archaeological Park
section_title: 2005
hierarchical_section_title: El Caño Archaeological Park / History of archaeological work in El Caño / The 1990s and surveying the site / 2005
caption_attribution_description: This is a picture of the panamanian cultural heritage monument with the ID 02-003-DSA Ubicado en Natá de los Caballeros, provincia de Coclé
context_page_description: El Caño is one of Panama's most important archaeological sites, located in the area surrounding the location of El Caño. Over the course of the last century archaeologists have been discovering several pre-Columbian burial sites at this location that are believed to date between 700-1000 AD. These burial sites have become very important to the scientific community because they have helped researchers gain a better understanding of the dynamic system of the Hierarchical chiefdom based societies created by the people who lived in this region of Central America before contact with Europeans.
context_section_description: In 2005 Mayo launched a ground survey using new electrical surveying technology that had never been used at the site. Their main goal was to determine if there actually were any burial sites at El Caño, and if there were burial sites at El Caño they wanted to know how much area the burial sites took up. Using Transient electromagnetics a team of geologist found several sets of circular magnetic anomalies at the base of several earthen mounds. Many of these anomalies were specifically located in coordination to where rain runoff had eroded away the sides of the lower portions of the mounds.
  After two years the information gathered through the survey determined that there was a clear circular outline of disturbance in the landscape that looked to contain the burials of Pre-Columbian people. This area was found among a series of stone monoliths and statues, and it was recorded to be approximately 250 feet (80 Meters) in diameter.
caption: Stone monoliths found around El Caño, Panama. These monoliths are similar to the ones that originally prompted Hyatt Verrill to dig up three pre-Columbine graves along the Rio Grande River (Panama).
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