Symposia presented at the Denver Art Museum in 2002 and 2007
focused, respectively, on pre-Columbian art in the museum
collection and the art and archaeology of ancient Costa Rica.
Edited by Denver Art Museum curator Margaret Young-Sanchez, this
lavishly illustrated volume brings together newly revised and
expanded symposium papers from pre-Columbian scholars, while paying
tribute to the legacy of Denver philanthropist Frederick R.
Mayer--a generous supporter of archaeological and art historical
research, scientific analysis, and scholarly publication.
Archaeology's elder statesman Michael Coe (Yale University)
provides a lively description of twentieth-century pre-Columbian
archaeology and the personalities who shaped its intellectual
history. Using traditional and scientific analyses of
archaeological ceramics, Frederick W. Lange (LSA Associates, Inc.)
and Ronald L. Bishop (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History) consider the transmission of technical and cultural
knowledge in ancient Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The late Michael J.
Snarskis of the Tayutic Foundation reports on his final
archaeological excavation, at Loma Corral in Guanacaste, Costa
Rica, where an undisturbed two-thousand-year-old cemetery contained
high-status burials, local and imported ceramics, and jade
ornaments. Warwick Bray (University College, London), examines
pre-Columbian gold items from Panama, including their uses and
meaning, as part of the "Parita Treasure" excavated in the early
1960s. Margaret Young-Sanchez (Denver Art Museum), presents the
construction and iconography of early (ad 200-400) Tiwanaku-style
folding pouches from the south-central Andes. And Carol Mackey
(California State University, Northridge) and Joanne Pillsbury
(Getty Research Institute) describe and analyze an important silver
beaker decorated with detailed ritual and mythological scenes from
the Lambayeque (Sican) civilization of northern Peru (ad
800-1350).
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