Isthmo-Colombian Area, the Glossary
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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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) »
- Cultural landscapes
- History of Central America
- 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
- Allerton Garden
- Built environment
- California Citrus State Historic Park
- Camino de Santiago
- Chalk heath
- Cultural Landscapes of Japan
- Cultural Route of the Council of Europe
- Cultural landscape
- Dehesa
- El Malpais National Conservation Area
- Flemmingen
- Footpaths of Mount Athos
- Fort Victoria, Alberta
- Heath
- Ibiza
- Industrial nature
- Isthmo-Colombian Area
- Lüneburg Heath
- Lavender Pit
- Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Liamone landscape
- Linpan in Chengdu Plain
- Marconi Plaza
- Moorland
- National parks of the United Kingdom
- Olmsted Brothers
- Orkhon Valley
- Ranchos of California
- Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin
- Roger Cribb
- Saoyú-ʔehdacho
- United States Court of Private Land Claims
- Villa Gamberaia
- Villa La Petraia
- Xoán Paredes
History of Central America
- 1923 Central American Treaty of Peace and Amity
- Battle of San Salvador (1822)
- Caribbean Legion
- Castilla de Oro
- Central America under Mexican rule
- Central American crisis
- Clayton–Bulwer Treaty
- Esquipulas Peace Agreement
- European colonization of the Americas
- Falangism in Latin America
- Flag of Los Altos
- Football War
- Hay–Herrán Treaty
- Hay–Pauncefote Treaty
- History of Central America
- History of Mesoamerica
- History of the Catholic Church in Belize
- History of the Yucatán Peninsula
- History of the west coast of North America
- Isthmo-Colombian Area
- Latin American spring
- List of conflicts in Central America
- Marion M. Ganey
- Maya civilization
- Mesoamerica
- Nazism in the Americas
- Operation Bolívar
- Operation Charly
- Pelota (boat)
- Pinzón–Solís voyage
- Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers
- Scarlett Martínez International Airport
- Territorial evolution of the Caribbean
- Union of Banana Exporting Countries
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 530
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 562
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 637
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 644
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 650
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 654
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 656
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 691
- Western Caribbean zone
Pre-Columbian cultural areas
- Archaeology of Iowa
- Archaic Southwest
- Aridoamerica
- Bajío
- Borax Lake Site
- Cliff Palace
- Clough Creek and Sand Ridge Archaeological District
- Dark Canyon Wilderness
- El Malpais National Monument
- Hahn Field Archeological District
- Indigenous peoples of the North American Southwest
- Intermediate Area
- Isthmo-Colombian Area
- Maya Lowlands
- Maya Region
- Mesoamerica
- Mimbres River
- Mound Builders
- Navajo National Monument
- Oasisamerica
- Pan-Caribbean
- Paria River
- Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles
- Precolonial Saba
- Pueblos
- Pusilha
- Salado culture
- Seafaring in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean
- Southern Maya area
- Southwestern archaeology
- Teotihuacan
- Tsenacommacah
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmo-Colombian_Area
Also known as Isthmo-Colombia, Isthmo-Colombian, Isthmo-Columbian area.
, Pan-Caribbean, Panama, Pech people, Rama people, Rivas District, Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Spanish colonization of the Americas, Stone spheres of Costa Rica, Tayrona National Natural Park, U'wa people, William Duncan Strong, William Henry Holmes.