Precolumbian Gold Technology, Style and Iconography

Publishing papers from an international conference held in May 1996 at the Museum of Mankind to mark the opening of the exhibition The Gilded Image: PreColumbian Gold from South and Central America, this text includes essays on gold funerary offerings from excavations at Batan Grande, Peru; the description of recently discovered Malagana goldwork from Columbia; and an accout of gold found in archaeological contexts from Panama.