Ear Ornament(?)

500–200 BCE Diameter: 2.8 cm (1 1/8 in.); Overall: 1.6 cm (5/8 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.186

There seems to be a link between Chavín religion and appearance of the Andes’ first large precious-metal objects, made using revolutionary new metallurgical processes. Chavín may have developed these technical innovations to express the inexpressible, the "wholly other" nature...

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