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EXPEDITIONS Flag Reports   FLAG 51 The Petroglyph Research Expedition: Darien, Panama 2005 March 2005 By Robert Edgar Hyman, FN'93 Expedition Members: Daniel Castaneda, expedition leader, sociologist—Embera Indian, Panama Robert Edgar Hyman, expedition leader, photographer—USA Carlos Fitzgerald, expedition co-leader, archeologist—Panama. Bernardo Solis, chief guide—Embera Indian, Panama David "Oso" Berrugate, porter, cook—Embera Indian, Panama Eukirio Chami, porter—Embera Indian, Panama Pedro Rosales, boatman, porter—Embera Indian, Panama Ascanio Ruiz, porter—Embera Indian, Panama Mario Flaco, porter—Embera Indian, Panama Introduction The Petroglyph Research Expedition: Darien, Panama 2005 was planned and led by Daniel Castaneda and Robert E. Hyman to locate and scientifically record petroglyph locations in the Darien province of Panama. This large lowland of tropical rain forest in Panama, known simply as "The Darien," remains largely unexplored. Indigenous to this area are the Embera Indians, who practice a traditional lifestyle of subsistence horticulture augmented by fishing, hunting and gathering from the old-growth rain forest. To date, Castaneda and Hyman are the only persons known to have documented the first four petroglyph sites found in Eastern Panama’s entire Darien province. FULL REPORT in pdf RETURN TO LIST

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