Sorry, I don't know how to make the image smaller. This is from Oct 2020
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The cat joins an array of other zoomorphic drawings found across the region's landscape over the last century, including depictions of a hummingbird, a monkey and a pelican. The discovery was made during maintenance work at a visitor vantage point in what is already a popular tourist destination
"The figure was barely visible and was about to disappear as a result of its location on a fairly steep slope and the effects of natural erosion," read a ministry press release.
After undertaking cleaning and conservation work, archaeologists uncovered a series of lines varying in width from 30 to 40 centimeters (12 to 16 inches). The style of the artwork suggests that it was created between 200 B.C. to 100 B.C., in the late Paracas period, the ministry said.
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Around 1946, Reiche began to map the figures represented by the Nazca Lines and determined there were 18 different kinds of animals and birds. After Kosok left in 1948, she continued the work and mapped the area. She used her background as a mathematician to analyze how the Nazca may have created such huge-scale figures. She found these to have a mathematical precision that was highly sophisticated.[1] Reiche theorized that the builders of the lines used them as a sun calendar and an observatory for astronomical cycles.
Because the lines can be best seen from above, she persuaded the Peruvian Air Force to help her make aerial photographic surveys. She worked alone from her home in Nazca. Reiche published her theories in the book The Mystery on the Desert (1949, reprint 1968), which had a mixed response from scholars. Eventually scholars concluded that the lines were not chiefly for astronomical purposes, but Reiche's and Kosok's work had brought scholarly attention to the great resource. It is widely believed that they were used as part of worship and religious ceremonies related to the "calling of water from the gods."
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I met Maria Reiche when I visited the Naza lines in 1994. She would have been 91 then.
Very cool, she must have been a wealth of knowledge and fascinating to talk with.
You don't have red hair and freckles do you?
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The Delhi police have announced the formation of a crack team dedicated to nabbing the elusive 'Monkey Man' and offered a reward for his -- or its -- capture.
Ya'll just don't get art. Clearly an example of deconstructionist Naza Lines. They took the initial concept of Naza Lines and just didn't finish it, so that we could appreciate the artistic process. It's like when you go to a really fancy restaurant, and instead of an actual piece of pie for dessert you get a bunch of bread crumbs, pie filling, and syrup haphazardly strewn across your plate. This piece was way ahead of its time.
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