Diquís Settlement and Monumental Platform
2018 © Maxim Tabachnik
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Diquís Settlement and Monumental Platform

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This scene features a raised ceremonial platform flanked by upright stones marking sacred space (700–1500). Such structures served for rituals, leadership rites, or ancestral veneration. Surrounding agricultural fields and homes reveal how spiritual and civic life coexisted within a unified territorial and cosmological design.