Between the Nazca Lines - What are the Nazca Lines?

Here we look at what researchers are saying about the Nazca lines.

A bit of a note, I just had a gold cap put on my back molar and it hasn't been fitted correctly yet, so there may be a bit of lisping or slurring...please pardon it.

Things to read:

Two of the projects I cited are,


The Nazca Lines Project (1996-2000)
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~proulx/Nazca_Lines_Project.html


Nazca-Palpa Project: Photogrammetric Reconstruction of the Geoglyphs of Nazca and Palpa
http://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/research/peru/index.html

And don't forget the blog itself!

Archaeology Fantasies http://bit.ly/goBEBq

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Education

Tags:

• Nazca
• Nazca lines
• aliens
• archaeology

[preptimenow]

This is a cool series.

[ArchyFantasies]

@preptimenow Thank you! I hope you like the next one too!

[cerebulon]

Why do people always assume that ancient artifacts like the Nazca lines have to be significant at all? Humans are humans and we do weird goofy things. These people might have been primitive, but they were still humans. Maybe they were just an artistic people and decided to do something big. Look at all the art that is created today for no reason at all. Look at the people who make crop circles. Maybe people are looking for meaning where there is none to be had.

[ArchyFantasies]

@cerebulon Well, sometimes a rock is a rock, but these were pretty massive to just be goofing off. Also, we do have artifacts in relation to the lines that point to them being a little more significant then just a joke.

[RavenBlaze]

hmm the nasca lines remind me of serpent mound in Ohio.

[ArchyFantasies]

@RavenBlaze Very similar, just different construction.

[yecako]

nice video this is cool.=)

[creativeprojects720]

good dissection of what it might be

[cerebulon]

@ArchyFantasies I haven't checked my account in a while. Glad to see that you are still around. I didn't know there were other artifacts related to the Nazca lines. 

[markdzima]

@ArchyFantasies

Gerald Hawkins looked for the astronomical line-ups and failed to find them. What Hawkins failed to account for, it is argued, was tropical location. Aveni is an expert on tropical archaeoastronomy. Being near the equator apparently opens up other considerations that can come into play such as disappearing sun shadows. Sunrise marking the beginning of rainy season was one purpose proposed for converging lines not considered by Hawkins, for example.

[ArchyFantasies]

@markdzima I love TTC productions!

I know that there is a need for the Nazca lines to line up astrologically, I won't say that a few of them don't appear too. The problem is that the number is no larger then chance.

It's possible that a few of them were purposefully aligned to astrological features, but the majority of them were not, so they can't all be part of a calender. The placement really seems to depend on visibility.

[markdzima]

I've been listening to the "Exploring the Roots of Religion" (2009) lecture series (The Teaching Company) by Prof. John R. Hale (archaeologist) in which he included a lecture on the Nazca lines. In that lecture, Hale favored the analysis of Professor Anthony Aveni. Aveni wrote a book entitled "Nasca: Eighth Wonder of the World?" (2000). Aveni revived the archaeo-astronomy hypothesis, using computer analysis and taking into account something neglected by Gerald Hawkins in his analysis.