Can anyone explain the Nasca Lines in Peru?

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MSDC

There are really 2 questions:
First: what are they? Nobody knows for sure. Maria Reiche, a German scientist that lived her whole life by the Nazca lines, believed they represented a giant crop calendar. The lines are mind-boggling, considering that they span for hundreds of kilometers in a straight line and can only be seen from the sky (something that the old Nazca culture was unable to do).
Second: How were they made? The Nazca dessert is very hot. So hot, in fact, that the top sand forms a hard crust on the top of the dessert. what the Nazca people did was break this crust, exposing the bottom sand and digging a small trench which is hardly noticeable on the ground but is visible from the sky.

creativetravelers

Well is hard to explain in few words the Nazca lines and there are many theories, but the most plausible theory about it is that Nazca lines were a ancient astronomical calendar related with the cicles of time and space, if you want to know i just wrote a newsletter about the art of the Nazca lines at http://www.southamericamyjourney.com/reservas/newsletters/newsletters.php?ID=1

abc

better search urself in Wikipedia :)

SDR

No one really knows but the latest studies talk about the drawings being some kind of Chamanic rituals made for pleasing the gods in orther to have water. And the straight lines are supodsedly made for pointing where the sources of water are.

The drawing correspond to animals found in places where chamanism exists. Traces of ancient water springs have been found following the direction of the stright lines.

But again, no one knows for sure.

The lines are formed by scratching the first layer of soil made of a soft rock, leaving the second layer (harder and of a different shade) uncover. That's why the lines have been there for soooo long!

Hub

No one has yet explained the Nazca Lines to everyone's satisfaction.

The first person to study them (Maria Reiche) thought they were a giant astronomical observatory. That theory has now been discredited.

When I was there a couple of years ago, I talked a good bit with a lady who used to work with Ms. Reiche and who thinks that the lines were used to locate underground water sources in this very very dry part of the world. However, I have read refutations of this theory as well.

The link below discusses and refutes a number of theories.

peru teacher

No,
Aliens? Inkas? The government? NO one really knows.

Louie

No. There are certainly a lot of opinions and hypothesis, but no one has come up with a definitive answer.

Personally, I think they were religious in nature. Made so that the heavens could look back on them. And nothing to do with landing markers for space aliens. Sapce aliens travel across the universe, but need a sign post to find a place to land?

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