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A Paracas mantle using a total of 22 individual colours, 89 x 180 cm, Peru, 300–200 BCE

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A Paracas mantle using a total of 22 individual colours, 89 x 180 cm, Peru, 300–200 BCE

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Details of a Paracas mantle from Peru. The Paracas textiles, made from wool and cotton and dyed with natural dyes, were used to wrap the bodies of the dead of the Paracas culture in 200–300 BCE

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Details of a Paracas mantle from Peru. The Paracas textiles, made from wool and cotton and dyed with natural dyes, were used to wrap the bodies of the dead of the Paracas culture in 200–300 BCE

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A very well preserved Paracas mantle from Peru, made of Camelid fiber. C. 200 BCE–100 CE, now housed at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri

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A very well preserved Paracas mantle from Peru, made of Camelid fiber. C. 200 BCE–100 CE, now housed at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri

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A 45 meters long Paracas geoglyph of an oculate being, found in the desert of Jumana, in Peru, in 1982. 500 BCE

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A 45 meters long Paracas geoglyph of an oculate being, found in the desert of Jumana, in Peru, in 1982. 500 BCE

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Basalt pebble carved as a mouflon, Indus Valley, 3000-2000 BCE, size: 5.3 cm high, 6.7 cm long. Collection of Oliver Hoare Ltd

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Basalt pebble carved as a mouflon, Indus Valley, 3000-2000 BCE, size: 5.3 cm high, 6.7 cm long. Collection of Oliver Hoare Ltd

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