Costa Rican art and archaeology essays in honor of Frederick R. Mayer /
| Other Authors: | Mayer, Frederick R.,, Lange, Frederick W., 1944-, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[Boulder, Colo.] :
University of Colorado,
©1988.
[Boulder, Colo.] : [1988] |
| Physical Description: |
336 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Geographical and chronological setting / Frederick W. Lange
- Ceramic paste compositioinal patterns in greater Nicoya pottery / Ronald L. Bishop, Frederick W. Lange, and Peter C. Lange
- Sacred symbols of life and death in northern Costa Rica / Alice C. Tillett
- Abstraction and jade exchange in precolumbian southern Mesoamerica and lower Central America / Frederick W. Lange and Ronald L. Bishop
- Jadeite, greenstone, and the precolumbian Costa Rican lapidary / Mark L. Chenault
- Mace heads as stylistic signalling devices / E. Ivonne De La Cruz
- The Costa Rican effigy head tradition / Dana Leibsohn
- The emergence and intensification of complex societies in Pacific Southern Costa Rica / Robert P. Drolet
- Preliminary investigations into the ceramic seals and roller stamps of Costa Rica / Robert S. Carlsen
- Golden images in greater Nicoya / Jane S. Day
- Vallejo and Jicote ceramic codes / Veletta Canouts and Juan Vicente Guerrero
- Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes / Suzanne Abel-Vidor
- Greater Nicoya and Mesoamerica / Paul F. Healy.