Nazca Lines What they might be
Tony Byrne
Archaeology Theory
Pseudo archaeology Essay
The Nazca Lines
Introduction
Originally when I was given this essay to write I thought of the many outlandish ones such as aliens etc but decided on one which had a few strange ideas. I had read a piece by Garret G. Fagan “Our ancestors were not really smart. They hardly progressed before the spacemen arrived.”
So I picked the Nazca Lines and am unsure about the links here. Is there aliens, maybe there are but one things is for sure the Nazca lines are a wonder. They were declared "Archaeological World Heritage Site" by UNESCO (1994).
I will look at both qualified peoples as well as those who write books. I will give you a few theories to whet your appetite.
What are the Nazca Lines?
About over 400 km (200 miles) south of Lima in the Peruvian Desert, there lies a plateau between the Inca and Nazca Valleys. The Nazca Valley was inhabited by a people who developed advanced farming methods that allowed them to build an irrigation system, improve their crops, and expand the area of land they could farm. Over the next fifteen hundred years they also developed skills in weaving, pottery, and architecture. The Nazca were quite advanced but were wiped out after the Spanish conquest, so that piece of history is quite unclear. Across this plateau, is a large area measuring thirty seven miles long and one mile wide. Here there are an assortment of perfectly straight lines, many running parallel, others intersecting, that form a grand geometric form. In and around the lines there are also trapezoidal zones, strange symbols, and pictures of birds and beasts all etched on a giant scale that can only be appreciated from the sky. So straight away people think of spacemen.
The shapes/drawings come in two types called bio morphs and geoglyphs. The bio morphs are some 70 animals and plant figures that include a spider, hummingbird, monkey and a 1,000-foot-long pelican. The bio morphs are grouped together in one
Archaeology Theory
Pseudo archaeology Essay
The Nazca Lines
Introduction
Originally when I was given this essay to write I thought of the many outlandish ones such as aliens etc but decided on one which had a few strange ideas. I had read a piece by Garret G. Fagan “Our ancestors were not really smart. They hardly progressed before the spacemen arrived.”
So I picked the Nazca Lines and am unsure about the links here. Is there aliens, maybe there are but one things is for sure the Nazca lines are a wonder. They were declared "Archaeological World Heritage Site" by UNESCO (1994).
I will look at both qualified peoples as well as those who write books. I will give you a few theories to whet your appetite.
What are the Nazca Lines?
About over 400 km (200 miles) south of Lima in the Peruvian Desert, there lies a plateau between the Inca and Nazca Valleys. The Nazca Valley was inhabited by a people who developed advanced farming methods that allowed them to build an irrigation system, improve their crops, and expand the area of land they could farm. Over the next fifteen hundred years they also developed skills in weaving, pottery, and architecture. The Nazca were quite advanced but were wiped out after the Spanish conquest, so that piece of history is quite unclear. Across this plateau, is a large area measuring thirty seven miles long and one mile wide. Here there are an assortment of perfectly straight lines, many running parallel, others intersecting, that form a grand geometric form. In and around the lines there are also trapezoidal zones, strange symbols, and pictures of birds and beasts all etched on a giant scale that can only be appreciated from the sky. So straight away people think of spacemen.
The shapes/drawings come in two types called bio morphs and geoglyphs. The bio morphs are some 70 animals and plant figures that include a spider, hummingbird, monkey and a 1,000-foot-long pelican. The bio morphs are grouped together in one