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A
4,000-year-old gourd fragment (above photos) bears an archaic
image of the Staff God,
the principal deity in South America during thousands of years.
It was found at a looted cemetery along the coast of Peru,
in what appears to have been the ancestral home of Andean civilization
that culminated 3,500 years later in the Inca.
Credit: Jonathan
Haas, The Field Museum
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gourd fragment was
found in this looted
burial ground.
Credit: Winifred
Creamer/
Jonathan Haas
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Another
view of the
burial ground where the
artifact was discovered.
Credit: Winifred
Creamer/
Jonathan Haas
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