PRE COLUMBIAN TAIRONA NATIVE INDIAN GOLD COLOMBIA NR Moms NO PANTS Auctions!..MINT 400+ YEARS DRILLED AGATE! Start Price USD 29.99 Current Price USD 51.00 Time Left - Bid Count 6 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, July 18, 2008 End Time Friday, July 25, 2008 Location maple grove, MN See more about 'PRE COLUMBIAN TAIRONA NATIVE INDIAN GOLD COLOMBIA NR' Description See Dear Mothers' World Famous NO PANTS Auctions!Bidders with 30/history or less must pay within 48 hours of auction end.Please note we ship about once a week, IN OTHER WORDS, SLOW; we are happy to take requestsWe are a garage sale, we haggle, straggle, and don't know much about much; make sure you want it. VITAL STATISTICS PRE COLUMBIAN TAIRONA BEADS NATIVE INDIAN STYLE GOLD TOTEMS COLOMBIA NR C.; 400+ years old Pre Hispanic Beads, Cano gold plated reproductions, Approx.; 17", Totems " x ", MINT Condition, screw-type fastener clasp. Save on Shipping, We Combine! THE AGATE BEADS ARE PRE COLUMBIAN, THE GOLD TOTEMS and CHAIN ARE REPRODUCTIONS We can't tell what the underlying metal is, appears gold plated but it's not marked. PRE COLUMBIAN TAIRONA CONICALLY DRILLED GORGEOUS CARNELIAN AGATE AT ITS' FINEST NATIVE INDIANS OF COLOMBIA, the TAIRONA HAND CARVED and DRILLED EACH CRYSTAL MODERN MACHINES CANNOT DO THIS WORK, INCREDIBLE HAND DRILLED CRYSTALS CANNOT BE DUPLICATED MINT CONDITION RARELY SEEN OUTSIDE MUSEUMS or PRIVATE COLLECTIONS like GALERIA CANO in COLOMBIA A HIGH END JEWELRY CHAIN with FANTASTIC PIECES LIKE THIS ONE ON DISPLAY CANO GALLERY NO LONGER SELLS PRE COLUMBIAN ARTIFACTS, ONLY GOLD REPRODUCTIONS BUT PREVIOUS TO THE ANTIQUITIES ACT, CANO SOLD ONLY THE BEST TAIRONA BEADSVINTAGE CANO JEWELRY USES PRE COLUMBIAN BEADS IN THEIR"COSTUME" JEWELRYHERE THEY'VE GATHERED A SELECT DEEP RICH RED CARNELIAN TO EXCELLENT EFFECT with GOLD THE CONICAL HAND DRILLING IS HANDSOMELY APPARENT IN THIS SUPERB GROUP OF FORTY TAIRONA BEADS HARD TO BELIEVE THESE ARE AT LEAST FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OLD! POSSIBLY OLDER! LIFETIME GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC PRE COLUMBIAN OR MONEY BACK A FANTASTIC DISPLAY OF GOLD PLATED TOTEMS COMPLETES and COMPLIMENTS THESE HIGHLY CORRECT CANO REPRODUCTIONS POINT to the INTERMEDIATE AREA CULTURES of COLOMBIA THE METALWORK IS ALL CANO WE BELIEVE, GOLD PLATED, AND MAKES A ONE OF A KIND DISPLAY, EXCELLENT CANO HAND WORKED REPRODUCTIONS, FANTASTIC HAND DRILLED PRE COLUMBIAN TAIRONA BEADS THIS IS A MAGIC NECKLACE, BEADS LIKE THESE WERE SYMBOLS OF POWER A POWERFUL PIECE, BEADS AND GOLD LIKE THIS STILL COMMAND PRESENCE .The Intermediate Area is an archeological cultural region of South America that comprises the geographical region between Mesoamerica to the north and the Central Andes to the south. As an archaeological concept, the Intermediate Area has always been somewhat poorly defined. Because it was not home to ancient state societies but was predominated by chiefdoms at the time of the Spanish conquest, it was sometimes regarded as a kind of "cultural backwater" that contributed little to the emergence of Pre-Columbian civilization in the New World. However, recent archaeological research has demonstrated that this part of the Americas had some of the earliest agriculture, pottery, and metallurgy in the hemisphere. It is likely to have played a critical role in the transmission of culture both to and between neighboring regions to the north and south. Recently, concepts such as that of the Isthmo-Colombiano Area have been offered as an alternative to the Intermediate Area with the intention of creating a positive identity based upon unique characteristics, rather than one defined by the absence of traits. The Tairona can be best described as a Chiefdom level society from the region of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the present-day Magdalena and La Guajira Departments of Colombia, South America which goes back at least to the 1st C AD and showed significant demographic growth around in the 11th Century. The indigenous Kogi, Wiwa, Ijka and Cancuamo people who live in the area today are believed to be direct descendants of the Tairona. Although the term Tairona may be an inaccurate way of depicting the societies that inhabited the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta during the contact with the Spanish empire, it has become the most common name for a hierarchical network of villages that developed around 900 ACE. Initially the term Tairona was used in reference to the inhabitants of a valley and probably a chiefdom named Tairo on the northern slope of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in time the Spanish used the term to classify the whole group of complex [chiefdoms] in the area as Tairona as early as on in the 16th century. To the eyes of the Spanish the groups within the northern and western part of the Sierra Nevada were indistinguishable from each other in great measure; in a similar way they have become indistinguishable to archaeologists in more modern times. The archaeological sequence of the region spans from approximately 200 BCE. to the 1600’s ACE when the Tairona were forcibly integrated into the Spanish encomienda system. Knowledge sources about the precolumbian Tairona civilization are limited to archaeological findings and a few written references from the Spanish colonial era. One of the first descriptions of the region were recorded by Pedro Marty Angheira from Vespuccio and other explorers who visited the region between 1505 and 1524, and was published in 1530. In his description, he portrays the Tairona valleys as densely populated, with extensive fields irrigated in the same manner that those in Tuscanny. He mentions that many villages were dedicated to fishing and traded their marine goods for the rest of their needs with those living inland. He also describes how they would agressively repel the Spanish when they attempted to take women and children as slaves in the first contacts. It would appear that as a result the very first contacts with the Tairona were very violent and the Spanish suffered great losses, which resulted in a more diplomatic strategy from the first governor of Santa Marta Rodrigo de Bastidas.  The Tairona are known to have built terraced platforms, house foundations, stairs, sewers, tombs, and bridges from stone. Use of pottery for utilitarian and ornamental/ceremonial purposes was also highly developed as a result of fairly specialized communities. The Tairona civilization is most renown for its distinctive goldwork. The earliest known Tairona goldwork has been described for the Neguanji Period (from about 300AD to 800AD) and its use within the Tairona society appears to have extended beyond the elite, however little proof of this exists. The gold artifacts made comprise pendants, lip-plugs, nose ornaments, necklaces, and earrings. Gold cast Tairona figure pendants (known as "caciques") in particular stand out among the goldworks of precolumbian America because of their richness in detail. The figurines depict human subjects - thought be noblemen or chiefs - in ornate dresses and with a large animal mask over the face. Many elements of their body posture (e.g., hands on their hips) and dress signal an aggressive stance and hence are interpreted by some as evidence for the power of the wearer and the bellicose nature of Tairona society at that time.However, the most forthcoming evidence for the 1599 final Tairona revolt against the Spanish seems to be the economic and religious pressure from the Spanish had become intolerable. The main agression against the Spanish in 1599 was the killing of priests and travelers along the roads that connected the Spanish city of Santa Marta and the Tairona centers of Bonda and the villages of Concha and Chengue. The secondary target were the churches and houses of known bureaucrats of the colonial administration. This of course, is data that is derived from Spanish testimonies from the trial against the Tairona chiefs in 1602. Not surprisingly, the Chiefs of Chengue and Bonda were sentenced to death, their bodies dismembered their villages burned, the populations relocated and incorporated into the Encomienda system. By the middle of the 17th century many of the Tairona villages were depopulated, fields completely abandoned and the region was engulfed by forest. IF YOU LIKE THIS STUFF PLEASE CHECK BACK!MYTH, KNOWLEDGE, and POSSIBILITY:Welcome to DEAR MOTHERS' EPHEMERA; Only Here A Short While Store!Antique, Collectible, & Antiquities from the Entire Earth & Elsewhere!Featuring the World Famous NO PANTS Auction: I may lose my pants but they will not be part of this auction!So Relax, Debind, & Join the NO PANTS Auctionauts As We Light the Rockets for Another Auction LAUNCH!Only On Ebay, Thank Goodness!I try to feature a few NO PANTS SALES along with a few items you might have to sell DEAR MOTHER for!Sorry Ma! I sold you to a Casino on Ebay!Traveling to Atlantic City? Say "Hi!" to Ma! Holy Madonna, Ma! 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