Cobble Stones and Standing Stones: Archaeology at the Rivas Site, Costa Rica

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Cobble Stones and Standing Stones: Archaeology at the Rivas Site, Costa Rica. By Jeffrey Quilter. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 218. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. References. Index. $49.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

This book not only provides to the reader detailed information about an archaeological site in Costa Rica but also contains a highly didactic and very frank account of the logistics and methodological implications involved in the entire process of doing archaeological research, especially in the tropics. As the title indicates, one will find here a detailed account ...

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