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Submitted by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 26 December 2017  Page Views: 2397

Multi-periodSite Name: Bolas Alternative Name: Costa Rica Stone Spheres, P-90 Bl-1
Country: Costa Rica
NOTE: This site is 72.509 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Buenos Aires  Nearest Village: Bolas
Latitude: 9.078350N  Longitude: 83.20992W
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Bolas submitted by dodomad : Stone sphere in a streambed at Bolas. Photo credit: Southern Costa Rica Archaeological Project (SCRAP) (Vote or comment on this photo)
A stone sphere in a stream-bed by the Aguas Buenas period site of Bolas, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. The Bolas site is located in the foothills of the Talamanca Mountains of southern Costa Rica. The site lies in tropical rainforest, on top of a small mountain ridge. Bolas is one of the earliest and largest concentrations of stone sphere monuments in the country, originally containing at least 22.

The site also contains stone sculpture fragments, cobblestone structure foundations and a number of artificial earthen mounds.

The Aguas Buenas period (300 BC–AD 900) was a time of profound social change in southern Costa Rica and western Panama. The period is associated with the formation of nucleated villages, social differentiation, monumentality and, in certain areas, the emergence of regional political organisation

The monumentality of Bolas is reminiscent of the later sites of the Chiriquí period (AD 900–1530) located to the south. Many of these sites, particularly those with in situ stone spheres, are currently under nomination as UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Note: Research on social complexity and the carved stone balls of southern Costa Rica, see the comment on our page for more
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Early social complexity in southern Costa Rica: new evidence from Bolas by davidmorgan on Friday, 15 December 2017
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The Aguas Buenas period (300 BC–AD 900) was a time of profound social change in southern Costa Rica and western Panama. The period is associated with the formation of nucleated villages, social differentiation, monumentality (Frost & Quilter 2012) and, in certain areas, the emergence of regional political organisation (Drolet 1992; Hoopes 1996; Corrales Ulloa 2000; Palumbo 2013). While the Aguas Buenas is defined as a common ceramic complex shared over a wide area, comparisons between various sequences suggest that the activities associated with these social changes were variable. For example, the florescence of village life in western Panama involved a strong emphasis on funerary ritual (Palumbo 2009), while that in areas of southern Costa Rica emphasised the specialised production of stone axes and ornaments (Drolet 1992). Despite the clear ceramic similarities, emerging research suggests that Aguas Buenas societies were quite diverse—a point first explored in detail by Hoopes (1996).

The Bolas site (P-90 Bl-1) is located in the foothills of the Talamanca Mountains of southern Costa Rica (Figure 1). The site lies in tropical rainforest, on top of a small mountain ridge. Bolas is one of the earliest and largest concentrations of stone sphere monuments in the country (see Figure 2 for an example), originally containing at least 22 (Quintanilla Jimenez 2007). The site also contains stone sculpture fragments, cobblestone structure foundations and a number of artificial earthen mounds. Such conspicuous remains led earlier researchers to conclude that Bolas was a socioceremonial centre (Drolet 1992: 222). While we do not yet understand the conditions associated with the growth of the site, its location on a narrow ridge with little flat, arable land nearby suggests to us that access to prime agricultural land was not a determining factor. The monumentality of Bolas is reminiscent of the later sites of the Chiriquí period (AD 900–1530) located to the south (Lothrop 1963). Many of these sites, particularly those with in situ stone spheres, are currently under nomination as UNESCO World Heritage sites.

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