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Costa Rican jade tradition, the Glossary

Index Costa Rican jade tradition

Jadeite is presumed one of the most precious materials of Pre-Columbian Costa Rica.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 13 relations: André Emmerich, Chalcedony, Copán, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Jade, Jadeite, Jasper, Mesoamerica, Mohs scale, Olmecs, Pre-Columbian era, Serpentine subgroup.

  2. Arts in Costa Rica
  3. Jade

André Emmerich

André Emmerich (October 11, 1924 – September 25, 2007) was a German-born American gallerist who specialized in the color field school and pre-Columbian art while also taking on artists such as David Hockney and John D. Graham.

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Chalcedony

Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite.

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Copán

Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala.

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Costa Rica

Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.

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Jade

Jade is an umbrella term for two different types of decorative rocks used for jewelry or ornaments.

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Jadeite

Jadeite is a pyroxene mineral with composition NaAlSi2O6. Costa Rican jade tradition and Jadeite are Jade.

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Jasper

Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue.

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Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

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Mohs scale

The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale, from 1 to 10, characterizing scratch resistance of minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material.

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Olmecs

The Olmecs were the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization.

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Pre-Columbian era

In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.

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Serpentine subgroup

Serpentine subgroup (part of the kaolinite-serpentine group in the category of phyllosilicates) are greenish, brownish, or spotted minerals commonly found in serpentinite.

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See also

Arts in Costa Rica

Jade

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rican_jade_tradition