PhD in Archaeology 2007

Website
https://www.marcusinstituteforaging.org/scientists/team-profiles-and-bios/ilean-isaza-phd
Areas of Interest
Human colonization of Panama’s insular landscape and the social interactions of its maritime chiefdoms prior to the European contact.
Excavation and Fieldwork
2009-2013 Principal Investigator: Pre-Columbian anthropogenic impacts in the vegetation of Coiba Island. Archaeological Project sponsored by the Panamanian Bureau of Science, Technology and Innovation (SENACYT). 2009-2010 Principal Investigator: Pre-Columbian Occupation of the Islands of the Coiba National Park. Archaeological Project sponsored by SENACYT. 2008 Field Director: Cultural Diversity of the Pearl Islands Archipelago. Archaeological project sponsored by SENACYT and directed by Dr. Richard G. Cooke, STRI Staff Scientist.
Representative Publications
Isaza Aizpurúa, Ilean Isel2022 El aprovechamiento de los espacios marítimos por los ancestros precolombinos de Coiba y Cabo en el Archipiélago de Coiba, Panamá. Revista Contacto Volumen 1 Número 3: 38-77. Panamá, ISSN L 2710-7620 https://www.revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/contacto. 2019 Una perspectiva multidisciplinaria: el sello indeleble de la metodología arqueológica de Richard Cooke y su influencia en las investigaciones de la autora en el valle bajo del río La Villa y las islas del Parque Nacional Coiba, Panamá. Cuadernos de Antropología 29(2), 1-20. https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/antropologia/article/view/367612013 Los Dominios Sureños del Cacicazgo de Parita en el Gran Coclé, Panamá: Un estudio de patrones de asentamiento en el Valle bajo del Río a Villa. Canto Rodado: 8:115-132. Panamá, ISSN 1818-2917. Dialnet-LosDominiosSurenosDelCacicazgoDeParitaEnElGranCocl-4729157 (2).pdf2013 Diachronic developments of two pre-Colombian settlements in the southern domains of Parita’s chiefdom, Gran Coclé, Panamá. In Multiscalar Approaches to Studying Social Organization and Change in the Isthmo-Columnian Area. Scott D. Palumbo, Ana María Boada Rivas, William A. Locascio y Adam C.J. Menzies editors. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá; Center for Comparative Archaeology, Pittsburgh University, Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, ISBN 978-1-877812-92-7.Sharpe AE, Smith-Guzmán N, Curtis J, Isaza-Aizpurúa I, Kamenov GD, Wake TA y RG Cooke2021 A preliminary multi-isotope assessment of human mobility and diet in pr-Columbian Panama. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36 102876. https:///doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102876. Cooke R, D Steadman, M Jiménez e I Isaza-Aizpurúa2014 Precolumbian Exploitation of birds along the Pacific Littoral of Panama. In The Archaeology of Mesoamerican Animals. Kitty Emery y Christopher Goetz editors. Lockwood Press, Atlanta GA., ISBN-13:9781937040055. Cooke R, I Isaza Aizpurúa, J Griggs, B Desjardins y LA Sánchez Herrera2003 Who crafted, exchanged, and displayed gold in Pre-Columbian Panama? In Gold and Power in the Intermediate Area, 91- 158, Jeffrey Quilter y John W. Hoopes editors. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C, ISBN: 0-88402-294-3Cooke, R., LA Sánchez Herrera, DR Carvajal, J Griggs e I Isaza Aizpurúa2003 Los Pueblos Indígenas de Panamá durante el siglo XVI: Transformaciones sociales y culturales desde una perspectiva arqueológica y paleoecologica. Mesoamerica 45: 1-34. Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, CIRMA, ISSN: 0252-9963Isaza Aizpurúa, II y PA. McAnany1999 Adornment and identity: Shell Ornaments from Formative K’axob. Ancient Mesoamerica Vol 10, 1: 117-127, ISSN: 0956-5361. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S095653619910107X
What have you been doing since you’ve graduated?
I directed field research in the Panamanian insular landscape.

 

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