TY - GEN AU - Lange,Frederick W.,ed TI - Costa Rican art and archaeology: essays in honor of Frederick R. Mayer U1 - 930.17286 21 PY - 1988/// CY - Colorado - US PB - Regents of the University of Colorado KW - ARQUEOLOGIA KW - COSTA RICA KW - ARTE KW - CERAMICA KW - NICARAGUA KW - OBJETOS ARQUEOLOGICOS KW - MAPAS KW - AMERICA CENTRAL KW - TRADICIONES KW - ALFARERIA KW - MESOAMERICA KW - HISTORIA N2 - Contiene: Geographical and chronological setting - Ceramic paste compositional patterns - Sacred symbols of life and death in northern Costa Rica - Abstraction and jade exchange in precolumbian southern Mesoamerica and lower Central América - Hadeite greenstone, and the Precolumbian Costa Rican lapidary - Mace head as stylistic signaling devices - The Costa Rican Effigy Head tradition - The emergence and intensification of complex societies in Pacific Southern Costa Rica - Prelimary investigations into the ceramic seals an roller stamps of Costa Rica - Golden images in greater Nicoya - Vallejo and Hicote Ceramic Codes: The case for stylistic analogy in the late polychrome period - Gonzalo FErnandez de Oviedo y Valdes: His work and his Nicaragua 1527-1529 - Greater Nicola and Mesoamérica: Analysis of selectec ceramics ER -