Costa Rica in Prehistory – Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino Mesoamerica - Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino

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Costa Rica in Prehistory

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Pareja antropomorfa: sacrificadores

Piedra de moler con 4 patas

Piedra de moler zoomorfa: felino

Piedra de moler zoomorfa: felino

Figura antropomorfa

Piedra de moler zoomorfa: felino

Figura antropomorfa masculina sedente: sukie

Figura antropomorfa masculina sedente: sukie

Mortero con figuras antropomorfas

Vitrina Costa Rica en la Prehistoria

Vitrina Costa Rica en la Prehistoria

Vitrina Costa Rica en la Prehistoria

Vitrina Costa Rica en la Prehistoria

Vitrina Costa Rica en la Prehistoria

Near the end of the 16th century, Costa Rica was divided by two vast cultural traditions: Mesoamerica, in its northwest; South America, in its center and east. The Atlantic watershed societies took stone sculpting to a high level of development. They made small, elaborate grinding stone decorated with deified personages and mythical animals, many of which were used to prepare hallucinogenic substances; statuettes of men in shamanic trance attitudes, and other personages with weapons and severed heads, linked to ritual sacrifice. These sculptures, together with finely worked seats, also served as symbols of social prestige in the tombs of the most prominent deceased.

Related cultures:

Pareja antropomorfa: sacrificadores

Pareja antropomorfa: sacrificadores

Materials: Stone

Measures: 235mm de alto x 223mm de ancho

Part Code: MCHAP 3156

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Piedra de moler con 4 patas

Piedra de moler con 4 patas

Materials: Stone

Measures: 125mm de alto x 225mm de largo x 190mm de ancho

Part Code: MCHAP 3153

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Piedra de moler zoomorfa: felino

Piedra de moler zoomorfa: felino

Materials: Stone

Clásico 1000- 1500 d.C.

Measures: 130mm de alto x 385mm de largo

Part Code: MCHAP 3148

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Piedra de moler zoomorfa: felino

Piedra de moler zoomorfa: felino

Materials: Stone

Tardío 1100- 1500 d.C.

Measures: 145mm de alto x 420mm de largo

Part Code: MCHAP 3146

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Figura antropomorfa

Figura antropomorfa

Materials: Stone

Measures: 250mm de alto x 155mm de ancho

Part Code: MCHAP 3163

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Piedra de moler zoomorfa: felino

Piedra de moler zoomorfa: felino

Materials: Stone

Clásico 1100- 1500 d.C.

Measures: 166mm de alto x 495mm de largo

Part Code: MCHAP 3147

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Figura antropomorfa masculina sedente: sukie

Figura antropomorfa masculina sedente: sukie

Materials: Stone

Clásico 1000- 1500 d.C.

Measures: 141mm de alto x 73mm de ancho

Part Code: MCHAP 3167

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Figura antropomorfa masculina sedente: sukie

Figura antropomorfa masculina sedente: sukie

Materials: Stone

Measures: 163mm de alto

Part Code: MCHAP 3168

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Mortero con figuras antropomorfas

Mortero con figuras antropomorfas

Materials: Stone

Preclásico Tardío 1100- 1500 d.C.

Measures: 183 mm de alto x 157 mm largo x 151 mm de ancho

Part Code: MCHAP 0983

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