. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 4] COSTA RICA-NICARAGUA ARCHEOLOGY—STRONG 133 Mason's study of the stonework in the Minor Keith Collection improves our knowledge of stone sculpture in Costa Rica. Burial.—Rectangular stone cists were commonly used for disposal of the dead in the Highland region. Hartman distinguishes four main types. Characteristic of the Cartago Valley is a cist built entirely of flat stone slabs. In the vicinity of San Jose cists are usually oval in form, built of river boulders, and have no roof. On the Atlantic slope large cists occur in which river boulders are used for walls
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 4] COSTA RICA-NICARAGUA ARCHEOLOGY—STRONG 133 Mason's study of the stonework in the Minor Keith Collection improves our knowledge of stone sculpture in Costa Rica. Burial.—Rectangular stone cists were commonly used for disposal of the dead in the Highland region. Hartman distinguishes four main types. Characteristic of the Cartago Valley is a cist built entirely of flat stone slabs. In the vicinity of San Jose cists are usually oval in form, built of river boulders, and have no roof. On the Atlantic slope large cists occur in which river boulders are used for walls and floors, but flat stone slabs form the roof. The fourth type, found on the west- ern side of the Cartago Valley, consists of cists made of small, square-cut stone slabs used like bricks. Rectangular graves and globular stone cists are also reported by Hartman from the same mound at Santiago. These cist burials usually occur in mounds, or in stone circles apparently marking hut rings. Sometimes as many as three tiers of cists occur, with burials. Figure 23.—Costa Rican carved stone slabs. (Specimen at left, 19 in. ( cm.) wide.) (After Lothrop, 1926 b, fig. 179.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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