From the height of an airplane circling over the Pampa Ingenio in Southern Peru, one may see the ground drawings which have puzzled scientists since their discovery in the 1930s. Etched across the landscape are lines and lifelike drawings depicting monkeys, birds, fish and spiders. The pre-Incaic Nazca people made these geoglypha. After several years of investigation, Aveni and his team of researchers have asembled their results here for the first time. These include a complete description and statistical analysis of the Nazca features, the surface archaeology of the pampa and the nearby ceremonial center of Cahuachi, and the relationship between the lines and pan-Andean systems of social organization. Illustrations. Photomozaic fold-out map.
| ISBN: | 9780871691835 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1990 |
| Author: | Anthony F Aveni |
| Publisher: | American Philosophical Society an imprint of University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 343 pages |
| Series: | Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society |
| Genres: |
Archaeology |
From the height of an airplane circling over the Pampa Ingenio in Southern Peru, one may see the ground drawings which have puzzled scientists since their discovery in the 1930s. Etched across the landscape are lines and lifelike drawings depicting monkeys, birds, fish and spiders. The pre-Incaic Nazca people made these geoglypha. After several years of investigation, Aveni and his team of researchers have asembled their results here for the first time. These include a complete description and statistical analysis of the Nazca features, the surface archaeology of the pampa and the nearby ceremonial center of Cahuachi, and the relationship between the lines and pan-Andean systems of social organization. Illustrations. Photomozaic fold-out map.
The Lines of Nazca features in the following genres: Archaeology
The Lines of Nazca is available in Hardback
The Lines of Nazca was written by Anthony F Aveni and published by American Philosophical Society an imprint of University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The Lines of Nazca has 343 pages
Yes it is part of Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society series