mar 17, 500 BC - Chavin de Huantar
Description:
900-200 BCE
Stone, granite,
hammered gold alloy (jewelry)
Northern highlands, Peru. Chavin
-temple ( region between the east and the west andes
strategically- people travel to the temple, art and culture and history moves through this region especially to this pitstop)
-nose ring (bull ring) was found there, contains what is considered contour rivalry, when a design of subject shares common lines, head of two serpents that share the same body
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