Research has focused on Aguas Buenas where semi-circular arrangements of structures made from bedrock have been identified. Our focus shifted towards Central Nicaragua, thanks to Alex Geurds (University of Leiden), where a different set of ceramic phases is employed to date associated materials. (Images courtesy of Alex Geurds center and right image permission from Museo Arqueológico Gregorio Aguilar Barea) On the surface, one ware that was recovered-Vallejo Polychrome-does bear similarities to Mixteca-Puebla-style ceramics, and compositionally it remains a mystery, anomalous among ceramics made locally and in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica.īedrock structures and stone sculpture comprise some of the materials identified at Aguas Buenas. Study of ceramics from sites in Pacific Nicaragua suggests interaction with Honduras rather than, as previously thought, with central Mexico, as Geoff McCafferty (University of Calgary) proposed. Metallurgy from this area seems to have drawn on local sources of copper and gold, producing forms that may be early instantiations of objects ascribed to the International Style associated with the region of Central America and Colombia. Juanita Sáenz (Museo del Oro, Bogotá) discussed metalwork from the Nahuange period (200 BC – AD 900) from La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. ![]() The raft depicts a central figure (left photo)-potentially a cacique-surrounded by attendants (center and right photos), a scene that does have analogues in other Muisca metal objects, and reveals a variety of technological traces.Ī range of Nahuange nose ornaments (Colección Museo del Oro, Fotografía: Clark Manuel Rodríguez) ![]() On the afternoon of Monday, January 26, María Alicia Uribe and Juan Pablo Quintero (both from the Museo del Oro, Bogotá) described their analysis of an elaborate tumbaga model of a balsa raft from Cerro La Campana in Pasca, Colombia. ![]() (Museo del Oro, Banco de la República Fotos: Clark M. Continuing our discussion of the presentations from our Panama workshop, let’s turn to some of the different assemblages that were explored:Ĭareful analysis of anthropomorphic figures has revealed distinctive ‘styles’ of Muisca metallurgists.
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