Highland Chiriquí farmers who raised stone statues of warriors carrying trophy heads and giant ceremonial metates at Sitio Barriles.
Volcanic disruption and shifting power dissolved Barriles; the region passed into the later Chiriquí-phase chiefdoms.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Barriles & Aguas Buenas — the shape you scrub through changes in 300 BC · 301.
The standard synthesis of lower Central American archaeology, placing Gran Cocle, Diquis, Barriles, and the Chibchan horizon in isthmian context.
An accessible account of excavating a major Greater Chiriquí-period site in southern Costa Rica, illuminating the chiefdom world of the Diquís and Barriles traditions.