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ANTIQUITY
Volume 79, Issue 304, Pages 257-268Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00114061
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Peru; Andes; Wari; Spondylus; ritual
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Eating shellfish in the wrong season makes you ill. But early people of the Andes seem to have courted these effects to gain out-of-body experiences. It may have been these effects, as well as its distinctive colouring and appearance, that made Spondylus such a very special commodity.
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