Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia

Jeffrey Quilter and John W. Hoopes, Editors



to order

Jeffrey Quilter / Introduction:The Golden Bridge of the Daríen

Nicholas J.Saunders / "Catching the Light " :Technologies of Power and Enchantment in Pre-Columbian Goldworking


John W.Hoopes and Oscar M.Fonseca Z. / Goldwork and Chibchan Identity:Endogenous Change and Diffuse Unity in the Isthmo-Colombian Area

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

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

Patricia Fernández and If igenia Quintanilla / Metallurgy,Balls,and Stone Statuary in the Diquís Delta,Costa Rica:
Local Production of Power Symbols


Carl Henrik Langebaek / The Political Economy of Pre-Columbian Gold Work:Four Examples from Northern South America

Mark Miller Graham / Creation Imagery in the Goldwork of Costa Rica,Panama,and Colombia

Warwick Bray / Gold,Stone,and Ideology:Symbols of Power in the Tairona Tradition of Northern Colombia

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

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


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