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UCLA professor Christopher Donnan named a piece of pottery from this culture the “Presentation Ceremony” (15[1])because he proposed that it depicted priests beheading captives and drinking their blood. This culture may have used the misha plant as a hallucinogenic, as its pottery depicts the plant alongside runners transforming into jaguars. This culture’s primary god (15[1])is Ai Apaec, (15[1])who is known in modern times as the Decapitator god. The name for this culture was coined by German archaeologist Max Uhle, who excavated (*) Huaca del Sol. The primary museum for this culture’s artifacts was established (10[1])by Cornell grad Rafael Larco Hoyle in Lima. For 10 points, name this culture that inhabited coastal Peru for much of the first millennium CE. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Moche culture [or Mochica]
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