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2. Stone spheres of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   Archaeology of the Diquís Delta, Costa Rica. Cambridge: Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 51. ISBN 0-00-000000-0. Stone, Doris (1943). "Preliminary investigation of the flood plain of the Río Grande de Térraba, Costa Rica". American Antiquity. 9 (1): 74– 88. doi:10.2307/275453. JSTOR 275453. S2CID 163632144.

3. List of gemstones by species - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of gemstones, organized by species and types. ... Rock crystal (var.) Shocked quartz (var.) Smoky quartz ... Download as PDF; Printable version;

4. List of names derived from gemstones - Wikipedia

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   Given name / surname It is a given and surname. [2] [3] Heliodor is a specimen of the mineral Beryl. Heliodor has a yellow, greenish yellow, or golden-yellow color. The given name has a Czech-Slovak origin. [3] Precious coral: Coral (given name) Given name Coralie: Given name Coraline (given name) Given name Celestine: Celestine Given name ...

5. Costa Rican jade tradition - Wikipedia

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   Jade bird pendant from Costa Rica. Jadeite is presumed one of the most precious materials of Pre-Columbian Costa Rica. It, along with other similar-looking greenstones (e.g. chalcedony, serpentine, and green jasper) were cherished and worked for years. Jadeite was used to decorate the body and was presumably a symbol of power.

6. Diquis - Wikipedia

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   The Diquis culture (sometimes spelled Diquís) was a pre-Columbian indigenous culture of Costa Rica that flourished from AD 700 to 1530. [1] The word "diquís" means "great waters" or "great river" in the Boruca language. [1] The Diquis formed part of the Greater Chiriqui culture that spanned from southern Costa Rica to western Panama. [2]

7. List of individual gemstones - Wikipedia

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   Bahia Emerald [2]; Carolina Emperor, [3] [4] 310 carats uncut, 64.8 carats cut; discovered in the United States in 2009, resides in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, US

8. Pre-Columbian Gold Museum - Wikipedia

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   It is located in a subterranean building underneath the "Plaza de la Cultura" and is owned and curated by the Banco Central de Costa Rica. The museum has an archaeological collection of 3,567 Pre-Columbian artifacts made up of 1,922 ceramic pieces, 1,586 gold objects, 46 stone objects, 4 jade , and 9 glass or bead objects.

9. Geology of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   The tectonics of Costa Rica are more complicated because the Cocos Plate subdivided into two blocks separated by the Costa Rica Fracture Zone (running northeast onto land), with the northern block being subducted. Submarine canyons have been used to infer the path of the Panama Fracture Zone running along the coast creating wrench faults.