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Incised Slate Disks from the Atlantic Watershed of Costa Rica: A Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Claude F. Baudez  and
Michael D. Coe
Claude F. Baudez
Affiliation:
Musée de L'Homme Paris, France
Michael D. Coe
Affiliation:
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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Abstract

An attempt is made to correlate the finds recently published in this journal by Doris Stone and Carlos Balser with the Coe-Baudez sequence in northwestern Costa Rica. The 25 tombs at La Fortuna cover the whole Linear Decorated period, with one tomb belonging to the preceding and another one to the succeeding period. The material listed from Guácimo is tentatively dated to the Middle Polychrome period corresponding to the Mesoamerican Postclassic. It is shown that these finds do not contradict the Coe-Baudez sequence, but rather confirm it. A few remarks are added about the condition of Costa Rican archaeology.

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American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 3Part1 , January 1966 , pp. 441 - 443
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1966

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