Celtiform pendants from pre-Columbian Costa Rica : production, distribution, and experimental replication / Waka Kuboyama-Haraikawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuboyama-Haraikawa, Waka, author.

Series:

BAR international series ; 3138.

BAR international series ; 3138

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costa Rica--Antiquities.

Costa Rica.

Pendants (Jewelry)--Costa Rica--History--To 1500.

Pendants (Jewelry).

Costa Rica--History--To 1821.

Material culture--Costa Rica--History--To 1500.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 149 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

This volume elucidates the lapidary technologies and social organisation of pre-Columbian Costa Rica (500 BCE - 900 CE) by analysing the manufacturing and social role of lapidary ornaments, known as celtiform pendants. These pendants are characterised by skilfully decorated carvings on celtiform semiprecious rocks and minerals, such as jadeite. A human or animal face is carved on the poll of axe, and these sophisticated images require large amounts of time and effort to create, hence they are interpreted as status symbols and prestigious objects. They represent a thousand years of tradition of the manufacture of high-status ornaments and were used by elite members of Indigenous Costa Rican societies.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 29, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781407314976

1407314971

OCLC:

1398320650