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Mineral pigments in the cruciform cache were arranged to correspond with cardinal directions, according to recorded rituals: Blue azurite to the north, green malachite to the east and yellow ochre with geothite to the south. The western side of the cache included soil and likely other material that began as red and faded over time.
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Takeshi Inomata/University of Arizona
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