Week 6
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Name your favorite and least favorite foods. Do you wish they served your favorite at school?
How fast can you sing/act out Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes.
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31 Unique Birds Found in Peru
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Mesoamerica continued . . .
NAZCA LINES
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Overview:
The Nazca Lines are a group of ancient lines that create animal figures.
The lines are known as ancient geoglyphs and are located in the Nazca Desert in Southern Peru.
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They became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.
geoglyphs- designs or motifs etched into the ground
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History:
The first writings about the Nazca lines were by Pedro Cieza de Leon in 1533.
The next time interest was shown was in 1927 when archaeologist Toribio Mejia Xesspe spotted them while walking in the foothills.
In 1940 Paul Kosok from Long Island University began extensively studying the lines. Paul was joined by German Mathematician Maria Reiche to help figure out the lines purpose.
They were able to determine that with basic surveying tools and careful planning the Ancient Peruvian people would have been able to create the lines.
Date/Purpose:
A wooden stake that was found on the site was used for carbon dating to determine the age of the lines.
Some researchers believe the lines were drawn so the people could speak to the gods in the sky.
Some of the lines coincide with the winter and summer solstice.
Carbon-14 dating is a way of determining the age of certain archeological artifacts. It is used in dating things such as bone, cloth, wood and plant fibers that were created in the relatively recent past by human activities.
Reproduction:
To prove that the Peruvian people could have constructed these lines, scholar Joe Nickell of the University of Kentucky reproduced similar lines while only using tools that would have been available to the Peruvian people.
Geographic called the work “remarkable in its exactness” to the actual lines.
How were the lines created?
The lines were created by digging out a shallow trench and removing the reddish-brown iron oxide pebbles that cover the desert.
Figures:
The total area is 190 sq. miles.
In total there are hundreds of individual figures with some of the largest being the hummingbird, spider, monkeys, fish, sharks, orcas, and lizards.
There are also designs that include phytomorphic shapes such as trees and flowers.
Conservation:
Due to the weather being dry and windless the lines have been preserved very well over the years.
In the past few decades the area has begun to deteriorate due to the amount of squatters living on the lands.
The Nazca Lines are an amazing UNESCO Heritage Site in Peru. Hundreds of
figures up to 200 meters across were designed in such a way that you can often only see them from the sky, and they were made 1500 to 2000 years ago! Many of them are animal-shaped, but there are others of plants or people.
(UNESCO) has identified 878 World Heritage sites that it considers of “outstanding universal value.”
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