International Symposium: Early Metallurgy from Mexico to Colombia: archaeology, technology and symbolism
In March, Lina María Campos Quintero, Jasmine Vieri, and Marcos Martinón-Torres participated in a workshop about early metallurgy from Mexico to Colombia, in San José, Costa Rica. The workshop connected specialist researchers working on the topic in the Intermediate Area and Mexico, revealing fascinating continuities and discontinuities in the use of metals by different communities in the past, and sparking discussion on various approaches to their study and interpretation.
Lina talked about her work on Malibú goldwork and its role in local ontologies in the Colombian Caribbean; Jasmine discussed the computational modelling of Muisca goldwork; and Marcos introduced the overarching goals and recent results of the REVERSEACTION project. In the words of Lina, it was ‘astonishing to see the similarities of the Costa Rican collections with the northern Colombian metalwork’.
Thank you very much for the invitation and the hard work to the organisers from the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, the German Mining Museum in Bochum, and the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica.