Costa Rican Art and Archaeology
Author | : Frederick W. Lange |
Publisher | : Johnson Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Frederick W. Lange |
Publisher | : Johnson Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Frederick W. Lange |
Publisher | : Johnson Books |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Frederick W. Lange |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Indians of Central America |
ISBN | : 9781555661007 |
Author | : Scripps College |
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Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Art, Ancient |
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Author | : Jeffrey Quilter |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2004-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1587294842 |
In this first-person tale of archaeological adventure in the tropical forest, Jeffrey Quilter tells the story of his excavation of Rivas, a great ceremonial center at the foot of the Talamanca Mountain range, which flourished between A.D. 900 and 1300, and its fabled gold-filled cemetery, the Panteón de La Reina. Beginning with the 1992 field season and ending with the last excavations in 1998, Quilter discusses Rivas’ builders and users, theories on chiefdom societies, and the daily interactions and surprises of modern archaeological fieldwork. Writing in the first person with a balance between informal language and academic theory, Quilter concludes that Rivas was a ceremonial center for mortuary rituals to bury chiefly elite on the Panteón. Through use of his narrative technique, he provides the reader with accounts of discoveries as they occurred in fieldwork and the development of interpretations to explain the ancient refuse and cobble architecture his team uncovered. As his story progresses amid the enchantment of the Costa Rican landscape, research plans are adjusted and sometimes completely overturned as new discoveries, often serendipitous ones, are made. Such changing circumstances lead to new insights into the rise and fall of the people who built the cobble circles and raised the standing stones at Rivas, a thousand years ago. The only book in English that focuses on a single archaeological site in Costa Rica, which continues to develop as a destination for archaeological tourism, Cobble Stones and Standing Circles will appeal to laypeople and professionals alike.
Author | : Mark Miller Graham |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Costa Rica |
ISBN | : 0870998781 |
Published in conjunction with its namesake Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition (September 16, 1998-February 28, 1999), this finely illustrated catalogue providing context to pre-Columbian works of jade tempts one to see the originals from Costa Rica's Museo del Jade Marco Fidel Tristan Castro and elsewhere. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Carl Vilhelm Hartman |
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Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Costa Rica |
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Author | : Samuel Kirkland Lothrop |
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Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Larry Steinbrenner |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1646421515 |
The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya is the first edited volume in a quarter century to provide an overview of this fascinating archaeological subarea of Mesoamerica, encompassing Pacific Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. Inhabited by diverse peoples of Mesoamerican origin centuries before Spanish colonization, Greater Nicoya remains controversial in the twenty-first century as scholars struggle to achieve consensus on questions of geography, chronology, and cultural identity. Drawing on approaches ranging from ethnohistory to bioarchaeology to scientific and culture-historical archaeology, the book is organized into sections on redefining Greater Nicoya, projects and surveys, material culture, and mortuary practices. Individual chapters explore Indigenous groups and their origins, extensive summaries of the three largest scholarly archaeological projects completed in Pacific Nicaragua in the last quarter century, clear evidence of Mesoamerican connections from Costa Rica’s Bay of Culebra, detailed histories of lithic analysis and rock art studies in Nicaragua, new insights into mortuary and cultural practices based on osteological evidence, and reinterpretations of diagnostic ceramic types as products of related potting communities and the first definitive identification of production centers for these types. Drawing upon new 14C dates, this volume also provides the most substantial revision of the late pre-colonial chronology since the 1960s, a correction that has critical implications for understanding the prehistory of Greater Nicoya.
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Features information on the archaeology of Costa Rica from "Between Continents/Between Seas: Precolumbian Art of Costa Rica," by Michael J. Snarskis. Includes photographs of artifacts, descriptions of the ancient historical periods and regions, and information on archaeologists of Costa Rica.