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Costa Rican art and archaeology : essays in honor of Frederick R. Mayer / edited by Frederick W. Lange.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayer, Frederick R--Festschriften.
- Mayer, Frederick R.
- Indian art--Costa Rica.
- Indian art.
- Indians of Central America--Costa Rica--Antiquities.
- Indians of Central America.
- Festschriften.
- Costa Rica.
- Antiquities.
- Costa Rica--Antiquities.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xvii unnumbered pages, 336 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : The University of Colorado, [1988]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages [303]-330.
- OCLC:
- 18948815
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