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The Salvage Archaeology of a Zoned Bichrome Cemetery, Costa Rica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Frederick W. Lange  and
Kristin K. Scheidenhelm
Frederick W. Lange
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Beloit College
Kristin K. Scheidenhelm
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Beloit College
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Abstract

Salvage operations were carried out at an extensively pot-hunted Zoned Bichrome period (300 B.C. to A.D. 300) cemetery in northwestern Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. This is the first "pure" Zoned Bichrome site of this type to be studied and yielded a cross-section of ceramics representative of other Late Formative sites in the area and of contact with the Maya lowlands. In addition, it solidified the impression of this period being an entity distinct from subsequent regional developments. This distinction is seen in terms of adaptation to the exploitation of marine mollusca, a pattern not present in Zoned Bichrome sites known at the present time, but very important in succeeding Polychrome periods.

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American Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 1972 , pp. 240 - 245
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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