Resena Arqueologica de San Agustin by Luis Duque Gómez (1916-2000) - 1963

115 pages with folding map, plates, drawings, folding table, illustrations and bibliography. Octavo (8" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. The San Agustín Archaeological Park is located in the Colombian Massif of the Colombian southwestern Andes, on terrains of the municipalities of San Agustín and Isnos, in the department of Huila. Three separate properties, totalling 116 ha, comprise the Archaeological Park: San Agustín (conformed by the Mesita A, Mesita B, Mesita C, La Estación, Alto de Lavapatas and Fuente de Lavapatas sites), Alto de los Ídolos and Alto de Las Piedras. The park is at the core of San Agustín archaeological zone featuring the largest complex of pre-Columbian megalithic funerary monuments and statuary, burial mounds, terraces, funerary structures, stone statuary and the Fuente de Lavapatas site, a religious monument carved in the stone bed of a stream. Condition: Edges and wrappers rubbed, book plate on front verso wrapper, previous owner's name on front end paper else very good.