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"Would you like to hold a four-thousand-year-old textile?"

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. . . .Jonathan Hass (an archeologist at the field museum of Natural History, in Chicago,) slid the fabric into my hand. It was about two inches on a side, little more than a scrap, and aged to the color of last season’s straw. To my eye, it seemed carefully made; a warp of fine cotton threads, ten of fifteen fo the inch crossed at half-inch intervals by paired weft threads in a basket-like patterns known as ‘weft-twining.” . . . .

Ordinarily, archaeologists label and store such artifacts immediately. But just as Hass removed the cloth from the ground, he was distracted by the excited shouts of a group of workers a hundred feet away. . . .

The site was supposed to be very old -- well before the local invention of pottery. Better have a look at it.

Hass was standing midway up a sixty foot hummock in the valley along the central coast of Peru, about 130 miles north of Lima. The valley was desert, withered and yellow grey except for the crooked band of green and market the course of the Forteleza River. . . . Page 198

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