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'Trash' found deep inside a Mexican cave turns out to be 500-year-old artifacts from a little-known culture

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Spelunker Katiya Pavlova discovered 14 artifacts in a cave in Mexico .

The artifacts may have been used in fertility rituals more than 500 years ago .

Among the artifacts were shell bracelets, a giant decorated snail shell (genus Strombus ), two complete stone disks and six disk fragments.

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