Early and Middle Preclassic Figuration in Clay

TL;DR: A figural jade theme that is common in Costa Rica is described in this article, where it consists of a standing figure in a ritual pose, and it is argued that it originated in the context of the jade exchange network linking the ancient jade artisans of Pre-Columbian Costa Rica to their counterparts in the Maya region of Mesoamerica.

TL;DR: Etude de l'association faite en Amerique Centrale, a l'epoque precolombienne, entre certains elements du costume (en particulier des coiffures) and le nom des individus les portant: donnees provenant principalement de Codex Bodleian, ecrit apres 1500 mais avant l'arrivee des Espagnols, en pays Mixteque as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors argue that replicas took shape during the early years of Mesoamerican history through the creation of forms that were entirely handmade, and they use the corpus of ceramic figurines produced during the Middle Preclassic period (900-300 BC) at the site of La Blanca, Guatemala.