Precolumbian Gold

Technology, Style and Iconography

• Author(s): Colin McEwan,
• Publisher: British Museum
• Pages: 248
• ISBN_10: 0714125342
  ISBN_13: 9780714125343
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Antiques & Collectibles / Silver, Gold & Other Metals , Art / General ,

Description:... Publishing papers from an international conference held in May 1996 at the Museum of Mankind to mark the opening of the exhibition The Gilded Image: PreColumbian Gold from South and Central America, this text includes essays on gold funerary offerings from excavations at Batan Grande, Peru; the description of recently discovered Malagana goldwork from Columbia; and an accout of gold found in archaeological contexts from Panama.