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peruvian artifact

dont miss this AP story. picture exceeds upload limit

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Mon Mar 31, 5:04 PM ET This undated handout photo provided by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows a reconstruction the gold and turquoise beads as a necklace. The central gold bead has a turquoise bead attached through a perforation in its center. The earliest known gold jewelry made in the Americas has been discovered in southern Peru. The gold and turquoise necklace, made nearly 4,000 years ago, was found in a burial site near Lake Titicaca, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(AP Photo/National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, Mark Aldenderfer)

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Re: peruvian artifact

So, 4000 years ago, a bunch of natives widely detached from the old world, thought this soft, useless metal was important enough to display it, and precious enough to send their dead to the next world decorated with it. Makes you wonder what they knew that we've forgotten, doesn't it?