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Index Isthmo-Colombian Area

The Isthmo-Colombian Area is defined as a cultural area encompassing those territories occupied predominantly by speakers of the Chibchan languages at the time of European contact.[1]

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  1. 63 relations: Adolfo Constenla Umaña, Andes, Antilles, Archaeology, Art history, Barí people, Barbacoan languages, Bribri people, Cabécar people, Cariban languages, Carl Vilhelm Hartman, Central America, Ceramic, Chibchan languages, Choco languages, Ciudad Perdida, Coclé Province, Colombia, Costa Rica, Costa Rican jade tradition, Cultural area, Doris Zemurray Stone, El Salvador, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, Eurocentrism, Genetics, George Grant MacCurdy, Gold, Gordon Willey, Gran Coclé, Guayabo National Monument, Guna people, Honduras, Intermediate Area, Isthmus, Jade, John Alden Mason, Kogi people, Las Mercedes (archaeological site, Costa Rica), Lencan languages, Linguistics, Maleku people, Max Uhle, Mesoamerica, Misumalpan languages, Muisca, Naso people, Ngäbe, Nicaragua, ... Expand index (13 more) »

  2. Cultural landscapes
  3. History of Central America
  4. Pre-Columbian cultural areas

Adolfo Constenla Umaña

Adolfo Constenla Umaña (January 14, 1948, in San José, Costa Rica – November 7, 2013) was a Costa Rican philologist and linguist who specialized in the indigenous languages of Central America.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Antilles

The Antilles is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Art history

Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past.

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Barí people

The Motilones-Barí, sometimes also called Barís, Motilones «or for its singular: Motilón» or Dobocubis, are an indigenous people who live in the Catatumbo River basin in Norte de Santander Department in Colombia in South America and who speak the Barí language.

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Barbacoan languages

Barbacoan (also Barbakóan, Barbacoano, Barbacoana) is a language family spoken in Colombia and Ecuador.

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Bribri people

The Bribri (also Abicetava) are an Indigenous people in eastern Costa Rica and northern Panama.

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Cabécar people

The Cabécar are an indigenous group of the remote Talamanca region of eastern Costa Rica.

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Cariban languages

The Cariban languages are a family of languages indigenous to north-eastern South America.

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Carl Vilhelm Hartman

Carl Vilhelm Hartman (19 August 1862 – 19 June 1941), was a Swedish botanist and anthropologist.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.

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Chibchan languages

The Chibchan languages (also known as Chibchano) make up a language family indigenous to the Isthmo-Colombian Area, which extends from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia and includes populations of these countries as well as Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

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Choco languages

The Choco languages (also Chocoan, Chocó, Chokó) are a small family of Native American languages spread across Colombia and Panama.

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Ciudad Perdida

Ciudad Perdida (Spanish for "lost city"; also known as Teyuna and Buritaca-200) is the archaeological site of an ancient city in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Colombia, within the jurisdiction of the municipality of Santa Marta.

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Coclé Province

Coclé is a province of central Panama on the nation's southern coast.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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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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Costa Rican jade tradition

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

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Cultural area

In anthropology and geography, a cultural area, cultural region, cultural sphere, or culture area refers to a geography with one relatively homogeneous human activity or complex of activities (culture).

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Doris Zemurray Stone

Doris Zemurray Stone (November 19, 1909 – October 21, 1994) was an American archaeologist and ethnographer, specializing in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the so-called "Intermediate Area" of lower Central America.

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El Salvador

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

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Ethnography

Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures.

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Ethnohistory

Ethnohistory is the study of cultures and indigenous peoples customs by examining historical records as well as other sources of information on their lives and history.

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Eurocentrism

Eurocentrism (also Eurocentricity or Western-centrism) refers to viewing the West as the center of world events or superior to all other cultures.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.

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George Grant MacCurdy

George Grant MacCurdy (April 17, 1863 – November 15, 1947) was an American anthropologist, born at Warrensburg, Mo., where he graduated from the State Normal School in 1887, after which he attended Harvard (AB, 1893; AM, 1894); then studied in Europe at Vienna, Paris (School of Anthropology), and at Berlin (1894–1898; and at Yale (PhD, 1905).

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Gordon Willey

Gordon Randolph Willey (7 March 1913 – 28 April 2002) was an American archaeologist who was described by colleagues as the "dean" of New World archaeology.

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Gran Coclé

Gran Coclé is an archaeological culture area of the so-called Intermediate Area in pre-Columbian Central America.

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Guayabo National Monument

Guayabo National Monument (Monumento Nacional Guayabo), is an archaeological site near the city of Turrialba, within the Central Conservation Area in the Cartago Province, Costa Rica.

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Guna people

The Guna (also spelled Kuna or Cuna) are an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia.

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Honduras

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

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The Intermediate Area is an archaeological geographical area of the Americas that was defined in its clearest form by Gordon R. Willey in his 1971 book An Introduction to American Archaeology, Vol. Isthmo-Colombian Area and Intermediate Area are pre-Columbian cultural areas.

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Isthmus

An isthmus (isthmuses or isthmi) is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.

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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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John Alden Mason

John Alden Mason (January 14, 1885 – November 7, 1967) was an American archaeological anthropologist and linguist.

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Kogi people

The Kogi, or Cogui, or Kágaba, meaning "jaguar" in the Kogi language, are an indigenous group that resides in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in northern Colombia.

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Las Mercedes (archaeological site, Costa Rica)

Las Mercedes (L-289-LM) is a complex archaeological site located on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica between the foothills of Turrialba Volcano and the alluvial plain.

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Lencan languages

The Lencan languages are a small linguistic family from Central America, whose speakers before the Spanish conquest spread throughout El Salvador and Honduras.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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Maleku people

The Maleku are an indigenous people of Costa Rica located in the Guatuso Indigenous Reserve near the town of Guatuso (San Rafael de Guatuso).

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Max Uhle

Friedrich Max Uhle (25 March 1856 – 11 May 1944) was a German archaeologist, whose work in Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia at the turn of the Twentieth Century had a significant impact on the practice of archaeology of South America.

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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. Isthmo-Colombian Area and Mesoamerica are history of Central America and pre-Columbian cultural areas.

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Misumalpan languages

The Misumalpan languages (also Misumalpa or Misuluan) are a small family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples on the east coast of Nicaragua and nearby areas.

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Muisca

The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest.

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Naso people

The Naso or Teribe people (also Tjër Di) are an indigenous people of Panama and Costa Rica.

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Ngäbe

The Ngäbe are an indigenous people within the territories of present-day Panama and Costa Rica in Central America.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.

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Pan-Caribbean

The concept of a "pan-Caribbean" culture area refers to recent proposals by an international group of archaeologists to the effect that contacts among Pre-Columbian peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula, the Antilles, Central America, and northern South America may have been more extensive than heretofore acknowledged. Isthmo-Colombian Area and Pan-Caribbean are pre-Columbian cultural areas.

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Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.

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Pech people

The Pech people, previously known as the Paya, are an indigenous ethnic group in north-eastern Honduras.

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Rama people

The Rama are an indigenous people living on the eastern coast of Nicaragua.

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Rivas District

Rivas is a district of the Pérez Zeledón canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.

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Samuel Kirkland Lothrop

Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (July 6, 1892 – January 10, 1965) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist who specialized in Central and South American Studies.

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Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (English: Snow-Covered Mountain Range of Saint Martha) is an isolated mountain range in northern Colombia, separate from the Andes range that runs through the north of the country.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.

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Stone spheres of Costa Rica

The stone spheres of Costa Rica are an assortment of over 300 petrospheres in Costa Rica, on the Diquís Delta and on Isla del Caño.

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Tayrona National Natural Park

The Tayrona National Natural Park (Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona) is a protected area in the Colombian northern Caribbean region and within the jurisdiction of the city of Santa Marta, from the city centre.

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U'wa people

The U'wa are an indigenous people living in the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia.

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William Duncan Strong

William Duncan Strong (1899–1962) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist noted for his application of the direct historical approach to the study of indigenous peoples of North and South America.

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William Henry Holmes

William Henry Holmes (December 1, 1846 – April 20, 1933), known as W. H. Holmes, was an American explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, scientific illustrator, cartographer, mountain climber, geologist and museum curator and director.

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See also

Cultural landscapes

History of Central America

Pre-Columbian cultural areas

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmo-Colombian_Area

Also known as Isthmo-Colombia, Isthmo-Colombian, Isthmo-Columbian area.

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