6/26/10

The Nazca Lines


Nazca Lines is a series geoglif Sechura located in the desert, especially in the Nazca Desert, the region whose length is more than 80 km between the towns of Nazca and Palpa in Peru. Geoglif is estimated made by the Nazca culture between 200 BC and 700 AD There are hundreds of pictures, from the simple to the complex, such as pictures of birds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, llamas and lizards. one of the places in the world that until now there is still much mystery overwhelmed. Many questions arise about its origins.


Nazca Lines had just started to bloom discussed in the era of the 1920s, stems from stories of airline passengers across the Nazca region, claimed like to see faint lines forming a variety of living forms with large dimensions. 1920s a new era in commercial aviation in the U.S. territory.
Since news of this discovery, archaeologists from all over the world come in droves to see the Nazca region and researching more about the Nazca lines.

Manufacture
It is not known with certainty who made the Nazca lines. The main theory is that the Nazca civilization made, using simple equipment and technology. This theory is supported by the discovery of ceramic and wooden pegs in some tip line. In addition, some researchers, such as Joe Nickell of the University of Kentucky, has made repeated these lines with the technology available at roughly the Nazca civilization, no air support.