Research Catalog

Title

El oro del gran Zenu : metalurgia prehispánica en las llanuras del Caribe colombiano / Ana María Falchetti.

Author

Falchetti, Ana María

Publication

[Bogotá] : Banco de la República, Museo del Oro, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Museo del Oro (Banco de la República).

Description

354 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Detailed analysis and classification of ca. 5,000 objects from the coastal plain west of Río Magalena based on technology, form, function, and decoration identify five regional styles defined by differences in staff heads, horizontally elongated nose ornaments, filigree earrings, and mammiform pectorals. Important source on precolumbian goldworking"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Series Statement

Colección bibliográfica. Antropología

Uniform Title

Colección bibliográfica (Bogotá, Colombia). Antropología.

Alternative Title

• Metalurgia prehispánica en las llanuras del Caribe colombiano
• Metalurgia prehispánica en las llanuras del Caribe colombiano

Subject

• Indian goldwork > Colombia
• Indian goldwork > Colombia > Sinú River Valley
• Indians of South America > Colombia > Antiquities
• Indians of South America > Colombia > Sinú River Vally > Antiquities
• Indians of South America > Colombia > Sinú River Valley > Antiquities
• Sinú River Valley (Colombia) > Antiquities

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.?)--Universidad de Londres.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-304).

Language (note)

• Summary in English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

9586640213 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^97142512^

OCLC

• 35201710
• SCSB-10366610

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library