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Table of Contents: “…An Achievement of Indigenous people -- Habilidades mixtecas: conocimientos de construcción en arquitectura prehispánica = Mixtec people skills. …”

Table of Contents: “…Snarskis -- Metallurgy, balls, and stone statuary in the DiquÝs Delta, Costa Rica : local production of power symbols / Patricia Fernßndez and Ifigenia Quintanilla -- The political economy of Pre-Colombian gold works : four examples from northern South America / Carl Henrik Langebaek -- Creation imagery in the goldwork of Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia / Mark Miller Graham -- Gold, stone, and ideology : symbols of power in the Tairona tradition of northern Colombia / Warwick Bray -- The seed of life : the symbolic power of gold-copper alloys and metallurgical transformations / Ana MarÝa Falchetti -- Gold in the everyday lives of indigenous peoples of sixteenth-century southern Central America / Eugenia Ibarra.…”