Through the experience of ancestors: living safe from the threat of water at the Las Flores archaeological site, Central Caribbean of Costa Rica

 

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Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
Συγγραφείς: Vazquez Leiva, Ricardo, Ruiz Torres, Cleria, Hidalgo Orozco, Tatiana
Μορφή: artículo original
Κατάσταση:Versión publicada
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης:2025
Περιγραφή:Introduction: Archeological research revealed a site that has remained safe of the vulnerability exert by water overloads in a highly geodynamic environment. This case provides a perspective for risk assessment, in reference to ancestral settlements. Objective: To assess a 2300-year trajectory in an archaeological site that includes architectural structures, as an example on resilience within a mega alluvial fan in interaction with a neighboring settlement and riverine communication. Methodology: A reference report was used as guidance on ceramic chronology, also planimetric drawing, geospatial and architectural analyses served for characterizing the site and its adjustment to the natural surroundings. In addition, informants' accounts allow significant artifacts to be recontextualized. Results: Ceramic and architectural data indicate 600-900 A.D. as age range for dating the architectural village under study. In spite of close proximity to rivers with high flow rates, the site does not present invasive effects of floods or alluvial avalanches. Fluvial transportation by canoeing should have had high importance, in congruence with the construction design of the settlement that is attributable to chiefly governance. The recontextualized artifacts correspond to war instruments and a monolith that suggests a notion on stone spheres of the Costa Rican south. [Continue reading the article]  
Χώρα:Portal de Revistas UCR
Ίδρυμα:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Γλώσσα:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/63481
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/reflexiones/article/view/63481
Λέξη-Κλειδί :Spheroid monolith
Architectural design
Chiefdoms
War instruments
Fluvial navigation
Monolito esferoide
Diseño arquitectónico
Cacicazgos
Instrumentos bélicos
Navegación fluvial