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The archeological site of the city of Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darién is located in Colombia, within the municipality of Unguía, in the Chocó Department, on the western coast of the Gulf of Urabá. In 1510, Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darién was the first Spanish city to be founded on the American mainland. A multidisciplinary community archeology project supported by remote sensing and geophysical prospecting has been underway since 2013. Here the preliminary results are presented, also focusing attention on their social consequences.
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About 300 local workers, who have specialized in stratigraphic archaeological research techniques. In addition, we have had the collaboration of: prof. Juan G. Martín (Universidad del Norte) for underwater research in Bahía la Gloria (2013), prof. Javier Rivera (Universidad del Norte) for research in Excavation Area A in 2014, prof. Rocío Salas and Prof. Pedro Botero (National University) for the study of soils and research in paleochannels (2013–2014), ArcSat satellite images of Padua for remote sensing in 2013, prof. Paolo Vignolo (National University) for historical research (2012–2020) and for being one of the creator of the project, Archaeologist Ernesto Montenegro for being one of the creator of the project and for impelling it since its beginnings (2012–2018), prof. Sneider Rojas (University of Antioquia) for the study of plant macroremains (2015), the geophysicists Julián Gallego, Davíd Tabares, César Ardila and Carlos Reina for investigations with profiler and GPR (2015–2023), the Bogotá Workshop School for the construction of the Heritage House (2016–2017), Drone Metrum SAS for topographic surveys in 2016, the museologists Carolina Quintero and Paula Torrado for the creation of the permanent exhibition in the Archaeological and Historical Museum and for contributing in the creation of the museography of the Park, the temporary community exhibitions “Maternidades” and “Caminos de Agua” (2017–2022), the Faculty of Heritage Studies of the Externado University for the restoration of metal pieces (2018), the Faculty of Education of the University of Antioquia for accompaniment in the realization of the community booklets (2018–2019), the restorers Pablo Obando and Tabita Serrano for the restoration of the metal and ceramic pieces (2014–2023), the Master’s Degree in Museology at the National University of Bogotá, to accompany the realization from the museology of the Community Room (2019), William López, director of the National Museum of Colombia, for inviting to his institution the temporary exhibition “Caminos de Agua”. We would also like to thank for their fundamental support to the project: the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History - ICANH; the Ministry of Culture of Colombia; the Cultural Office of the Swiss Federation; the National University of Colombia; the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Office VI, Archaeology Sector), the National Museum of Colombia, the Comité Cultural del Darién.
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A. Sarcina is the archaeological project manager; M. Cozzolino, V. Gentile and P. Mauriello are responsible of the geophysical researches (MAECI Project “Large scale geophysical prospection for the knowledge of the Santa María De La Antigua Site, Colombia”, Grant number 1470, Director P. Mauriello).
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Cozzolino, M., Gentile, V., Mauriello, P., Sarcina, A. (2024). Towards the Construction of a Hypothetical Map of Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darién (Colombia), The First Spanish City in the American Mainland. An Overview of Ten years of a Communitarian and Multidisciplinary Archaeological Project. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Garau, C., Taniar, D., C. Rocha, A.M.A., Faginas Lago, M.N. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2024 Workshops. ICCSA 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65332-2_24
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