This dataset complements the 2009 dissertation The Development of Complex Society in the Volcán Barú Region of Western Panama by Scott Palumbo (available from University of Pittsburgh's Electronic Theses and Dissertations Database). It provides detailed data on the quantities of artifacts recovered in each individual shovel probe or surface collection made during the 2007 Volcán Barú research, which are discussed in greater detail in the dissertation.

The dissertation's Table of Contents is as follows:

• Chapter 1: Theoretical Introduction
• Chapter 2: Setting and Methodology
• Chapter 3: Chronology
• Chapter 4: Demography
• Chapter 5: The Concepción Phase (300 B.C. to A.D. 400)
• Chapter 6: The Early Bugaba Phase (A.D. 300 to 600)
• Chapter 7: The Late Bugaba Phase (A.D. 600 to 900)
• Chapter 8: The Chiriquí Period (A.D. 900 to 1400)
• Chapter 9: Conclusions

Questions or comments about this dataset or the Latin American Archaeology Database may be directed to laad@pitt.edu. Users of the dataset are requested to credit the source of the information with bibliographic references to both the printed volume and the on-line dataset, as follows:

Palumbo, Scott (2009a) The Development of Complex Society in the Volcán Barú Region of Western Panama. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

Palumbo, Scott (2009b) Volcán Barú Site Dataset. Latin American Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh. URL: <http://www.pitt.edu/~laad/