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Multi-periodSite Name: Bolas Alternative Name: Costa Rica Stone Spheres, P-90 Bl-1Country: 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
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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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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