PRE COLUMBIAN Colombia TAIRONA AGATE BEAD LOT Native INDIAN PRECOLUMBIAN OLD NR

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PRE COLUMBIAN Colombia TAIRONA AGATE BEAD LOT Native INDIAN PRECOLUMBIAN OLD NR:
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PRECOLUMBIAN Colombian Native TAIRONA AGATE BEAD LOT
Biggest is 5/8 INCH TUBE
The drill holes can clearly be seen, only copper rods and sand were used by the Tairona as drilling tools
Tairona was a group of chiefdoms in the region of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Present-day Cesar, Magdalena and La Guajira Departments of Colombia, South America
The Tairona go back at least to the 1st century CE and their beads are 400 plus years old
The Tairona people formed one of the two principal linguistic groups of the Chibcha family, the other being the Muisca.
Genetic and archaeological evidence shows a relatively dense occupation of the region by at least 200 BC.
Pollen data compiled by Luisa Fernanda Herrera in the 1980 shows considerable deforestation and the use of cultigens such as yuca and maiz since possibly 1200 BC.
However, occupation of the Colombian Caribbean coast by sedentary or semi-sedentary populations have been documented to have occurred by c. 4000 BCE.
Ethnohistorical data shows that initial contact with the Spanish was tolerated by the Tairona but by the 1600 CE confrontations built and a small part of the Tairona population moved to the higher stretches of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
This movement allowed them to evade the worst of the Spanish colonial system during the 17th and 18th centuries.
The indigenous Kogui, Wiwa, Arhuacos (Ijka, Ifca) and Cancuamo people who live in the area today are believed to be direct descendants of the Tairona.
400 to 2000 Years Old, GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC FOR LIFE
Some were collected before the 1974 Antiquities Act, circa Santa Marta
Some bought stateside at sales, etc........,