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Jade in Meso-America

Pre-Columbian Jade in the Central and Southern Americas

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Pre-conquest New World society was a patchwork of hierarchically organized complex cultures and more simple egalitarian groups. Depending on the geographical area and the level of social complexity, religions in these New World societies served either to validate the rule of central deity/political figures or to represent the naturalistic view of the real and mythical world surrounding the people. In many areas, and over many thousands of years, some of the most important indicators of prehistoric social or religious rank were jade objects.

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Bishop, R.L., Lange, F.W., Easby, E.K. (1991). Jade in Meso-America. In: Keverne, R. (eds) Jade. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3922-3_17

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