Pre-Columbian gold : technology, style and iconography

Publishing papers from an international conference held in May 1996 at the Museum of Mankind to mark the opening of the exhibition "The Gilded Image: PreColumbian Gold from South and Central America", this text includes essays on gold funerary offerings from excavations at Batan Grande, Peru; the description of recently discovered Malagana goldwork from Columbia; and an accout of gold found in archaeological contexts from Panama.