1 published discovery from Costa Rica — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Costa Rica, a famous historical find. It is filed under artefacts. It is the Diquís stone spheres, most made between about AD 800 and 1500.
The law: In Costa Rica, as in most countries, archaeological finds are protected by national heritage law: report anything old or unusual to the national heritage authority, and never dig at a known site or export a find without permission.
In the 1930s workers clearing jungle for United Fruit Company banana plantations in the Diquís Delta of southern Costa Rica found hundreds of nearly perfect stone spheres, some over two metres across. Made between about AD 800 and 1500, their purpose is still unknown.
