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Gold and power in ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 9 and 10 October 1999 by Jeffrey Quilter, & Dumbarton Oaks, (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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he lure of gold as a source of quick and bountiful cash led to looting on a vast scale in southern Central America and Colombia. Overgrown ridge-top cemeteries in Costa Rica, picked clean a century ago, now resemble tropical versions of World War I battlefields, their surfaces riddled with the pockmarks of looters’ picks rather than mortar shells. Thousands of gold “eagles” and other items poured out of the Intermediate Area to the extent that some of the smaller pieces were commonly used as watch fobs at the turn of the last century. Despite these items’ ubiquity and the row upon row of bright, shiny objects lining museum cases and collectors’ cabinets, the number of gold objects scientifically excavated from the region (excluding Sitio Conte) could easily fit on a standard dining room table. The symposium and the papers presented represent a summation and a starting point. More than a century ago, William Henry Holmes wrote the first extensive treatise on archaeological remains from Chiriquí, in western Panama. The nineteenth-century gold rush had produced considerable quantities of related materials for scholarly study although no formal archaeological fieldwork had been done.

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Author

Jeffrey Quilter, & Dumbarton Oaks, (eds.)

Publisher

Dumbarton Oaks Trustees; Harvard University,

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780884022947

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities