P365 D55: Juligalpa Archaeological Musem

We stopped in Juligalpa to check out this archaeological museum that has a number of pre-Combian statues from the Chontales department in Nicaragua. Two of which are 8 meters tall. This was to see whether or not these effigies look more Chibchan and were made by people inhabiting the isthmo-Colombian area or were they made by Mesoamerican populations. This has important implications for understanding a number of concepts regarding the movement of people during pre-Columbian times. Based on my general observations and my colleaque who has worked as an archaeologist in Central America belief that are more Chibchan in origin but there is a general lack of context on exactly where these object come from.