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Nasca - Nazca
The Nasca (300 BCE-AD 800) created curious markings and animal drawings on the Peru desert that have fascinated archaeologists since the 1920s. They reached worldwide attention in the 1960s when some large clearings were described as a spaceport for ancient astronauts.
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Making a line Section of animal drawing
Lines
Dra Maria Reiche
Triangular clearing Clearings & lines
North Rectangle
 Broad line
Hummingibrd
Monkey
 Section of animal drawing Clearing & lines
Lines & grids
1963 unpolluted air
 Stone piles & lines Hummingbird?
North Rectangle North Rectangle Cantalloc spiral Spiral
Straight line Hands
Pelican?
Bird
Great Rectangle
Spider
Bird
Spaceman or Owlman
Clearings Seaweed or tree Whale
Clearing
Feather mantle Polychrome pot Polychrome pot weaving decoration
Polychrome pot
Polychrome pot
Polychrome pot
Dr Gerald Hawkins
puquio - water channel mummies
mummy
 burial chamber
 
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