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Keith Collection returned to Costa Rica
Keith Collection returned to Costa Rica
17 de julio de 2021, 0:16
Por Alejandro Gómez
San José, (Prensa Latina) Costa Rica has only been able to recover 2,286 archaeological pieces from different indigenous cultures of the little more than 16,000 taken to the United States by American business executive Minor Keith, builder of the railroad in the Central America and the Caribbean. According to the book Keith and Costa Rica, by the North American writer Watt Stewart, the business executive s interest in collecting indigenous art arouse from a fortunate accident.
Among the many plantations he owned in the region was one named Mercedes, located in the valley of the Santa Clara River, a tributary of the Reventazón, which flowed down from the north.
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Origin
In 2009 researchers in northeastern Colombia discovered fossils of the largest known snake in the world, a prehistoric creature dubbed
Titanoboa cerrejonensis (titanoboa) that lived 58 to 60 million years ago and is estimated to have been an astonishing 42.5 feet (13 meters) in length twice as long as modern pythons and anacondas. (Other researchers have since estimated the length of the largest titanoboas may have reached as much as 50 feet.)
The titanoboa quickly became an object of public fascination and was the subject of a sensationally advertised Smithsonian Channel program called
Titanoboa: Monster Snake which aired 1 April 2012. An imagined recreation of a titanoboa is also featured at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.:
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