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Location of the site
Site overview
Site Finds
Cleaned items
View Off Terrace
Second Site
Site
metate
Figurine head
Dark Jade pieces
Howler monkeys
Snarkis at Work
Bowl and jade
Jades
Panorama
Monkey effigy burial
Metate in lab
Cemetery Site
Effigy
Monkey effijar
Necklace
 

 

One of the Finest Olmec Jades Known Found in
  Tibás, a San José, Costa Rica Suburb

The classic Costa Rican avian (harpy eagle, with the two feather tufts, probably the most frequently seen motif on jade axe-god pendants in CR) that lay on the other side of the metate from the Olmec jade. It is 22 cm high, and one of the largest and best-quality examples of its kind. It was also made several centuries after the Olmec jade clamshell, thus supporting the hypothesis of Maya looting of Olmec tombs during the first centuries AD in Mesoamerica.