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.

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