New Survey Results from the Bolas Region, Costa Rica
Author(s): Scott Palumbo
Year: 2018
Summary
The Bolas region presents one of the earliest steps toward the monumentality and complex social patterns that characterize later World Heritage sites in Greater Chiriquí. The forces and factors associated with these social changes remain incompletely understood. This paper shares the results from recent shovel test survey in the Bolas region and offers observations on broad social trends from the Formative period onward. Particular attention is paid to Mosca, another large and monumental site in close proximity to Bolas, and considers how social diversity may have shaped political change.
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New Survey Results from the Bolas Region, Costa Rica. Scott Palumbo. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444947)
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Keywords
General
Intermediate Area
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Settlement patterns
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Survey
Geographic Keywords
Central America and Northern South America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -92.153; min lat: -4.303 ; max long: -50.977; max lat: 18.313 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 20115