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Extracts from: Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia
By Jeffrey Quilter and John W. Hoopes, Editors, published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
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• Contents

• Catching the Light:  Technologies of Power and Enchantment in Pre-Columbian Goldworking, Nicholas J. Saunders, University College London

• Goldwork and Chibchan Identity: Endogenous Change and Diffuse Unity in the Isthmo-Colombian Area, John W. Hoopes,
  University of Kansas, & Oscar M. Fonseca Z., University of Costa Rica

• Who Crafted, Exchanged, and Displayed Gold in Pre-Columbian Panama? Richard Cooke, Ilean Isaza, John Griggs, Benoit Desjardins, and Luís Alberto Sánchez, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

• From Jade to Gold in Costa Rica: How, Why, and When, Michael J. Snarskis, Ph.D.

• Metallurgy, Balls, and Stone Statuary in the Diquís Delta,
  Costa Rica: Local Production of Power Symbols, Patricia Fernández, Fundación Museos Banco Central, Costa Rica, and Ifigenia Quintanilla, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

• The Political Economy of Pre-Colombian Goldwork: Four Examples from Northern South America Carl Henrik Langebaek,
  Universidad de los Andes

• Creation Imagery in the Goldwork of Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia Mark Miller Graham, Auburn University

• Gold, Stone, and Ideology: Symbols of Power in theTairona Tradition of Northern Colombia, Warwick Bray, University College, London

• The Seed of Life: The Symbolic Power of Gold-Copper Alloys and Metallurgical Transformations, Ana María Falchetti

• Gold in the Everyday Lives of Indigenous Peoples of Sixteenth-Century Southern Central America, Eugenia Ibarra

More Articles On Costa Rica & Central America:

• Prehistoric Exploitation of the Swamp Palm (Raphia taedigera: Arecaceae) at Sitio Drago, Isla Colón, Bocas Del Toro Province, Panama, by THOMAS A. WAKE
• JADEITE, By Kim Be Howard, A.G. (C.I.G.)
• THE PRE-COLUMBIAN ECONOMY By REBECCA STOREY and  RANDOLPH J. WIDMER
• SELECTED REFERENCES ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MESOAMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN CULTURE AREA, Smithsonian Institution
• INTERREGIONAL INTERACTION AND THE PREHISTORIC SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE RIVAS REGION, PACIFIC NICARAGUA, by Karen S. Niemel
• One Hundred Years of Anthropology in Costa Rica / Cien Años de Antropología en Costa Rica; A Bibliography of Published and Unpublished Sources / Una Bibliografía de Fuentes Publicados y No Publicados.
  by John W. Hoopes
• Central American Rock Art by Martin Künne
• THE STONE STATUES OF NICARAGUA BY S.K.LOTHROP
• The Jade-to-Gold Shift in Ancient Costa Rica: A World Systems Perspective, by David F. Mora-Marín
• ECOLOGY AND THE ARTS IN ANCIENT PANAMA ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL RANK AND SYMBOLISM IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCES, By OLGA F. LINARES
• Remote Sensing Arenal Region, Costa Rica by Tom Sever »
   

Other Articles In Spanish / Español

• ORIGEN DE LOS NOMBRES INDÍGENAS »
• One Hundred Years of Anthropology in Costa Rica / Cien Años de Antropología en Costa Rica; A Bibliography of Published and Unpublished Sources / Una Bibliografía de Fuentes Publicados y No Publicados.
  by John W. Hoopes

Other Articles In Other Languages

• Gran Nicoya - Tesi doctoral presentada per Meritxell TOUS MATA (en Catalan) Serie:
  • Gran Nicoya I: De la Gran Nicoya precolombina a la provincia de Nicaragua, s. XV y XVI,
  • Gran Nicoya II: Grupos de la Gran Nicoya y ocupación del territorio.
  • Gran Nicoya III: La Conquista de la Gran Nicoya
  • Gran Nicoya IV: Anexo

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