{"id":137807,"date":"2022-04-07T12:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/archaeologists-excavate-giant-stone-spheres-in-costa-rica"},"modified":"2022-04-07T12:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:02:40","slug":"archaeologists-excavate-giant-stone-spheres-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/archaeologists-excavate-giant-stone-spheres-in-costa-rica","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists excavate giant stone spheres in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/archaeologists-excavate-giant-stone-spheres-in-costa-rica.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the Chiriqu\u00ed Period between AD 800 \u2013 1,500, many settlements grew into large communities around the alluvial lands of the T\u00e9rraba River and its main tributaries, constructing large structures using round-edged boulders, paved areas, burial sites, and circular or rectangular mounds with stone walls.<\/p>\n<p>The Diqu\u00eds reached an apex of cultural development during this period, with Diqu\u00eds artisans creating elaborate ceramic, bone, and gold objects, and sculpturing stone spheres in important zones within the settlements. Stone spheres were also placed in alignments in public plazas, or along the approach to the dwellings of the ruling elite or chieftains.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists from the Instituto Nacional de Antropolog\u00eda e Historia (INAH) and the National Museum of Costa Rica (MNCR) have excavated 6 stone spheres as part of a wider project to preserve the monuments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Chiriqu\u00ed Period between AD 800 \u2013 1,500, many settlements grew into large communities around the alluvial lands of the T\u00e9rraba River and its main tributaries, constructing large structures using round-edged boulders, paved areas, burial sites, and circular or rectangular mounds with stone walls. The Diqu\u00eds reached an apex of cultural development during this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}