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

Edited by Jeffrey Quilter

Edited by John W. Hoopes

    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 Ifigenia 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"

Jeffrey Quilter is Deputy Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.