Costa Rican chiefdoms of the Térraba lowlands who carved hundreds of near-perfect stone spheres and aligned them before chiefly houses.
Still raising spheres when the Spanish arrived; the chiefdoms collapsed under conquest and their sphere-craft was lost.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Diquís — the shape you scrub through changes in 700 · 1101.
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.
The standard synthesis of lower Central American archaeology, placing Gran Cocle, Diquis, Barriles, and the Chibchan horizon in isthmian context.