(200 BC-600 AC)

The Nazca lines “Solving history #1”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzatdt4e-5c&feature=player_embedded

The Mysterious Nazca lines of Southern Peru: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezKgOWPX6hg&feature=related

Ancient geoglyphs drawn on the Nazca desert.

The Nazca desert is a high arid plateau that stretches 53 miles between towns.

1927 Mejia Xespe and Paul Kosok.

Lines are:

A documented history of science and scientists of the pre-Columbian Peru.

Maria Reiche studied the Nazca line drawings for 50 years (1940).

Located 200 miles south of Lima.

Nazca have used simple tools and surveying equipment to construct the lines. Studies have found wooden stakes.

Jim Woodmann believes that the Nazca Lines could not have been made without some form of manned flight to see the figures properly. Hot air ballon was the only possible means of flight.

Erich von Daniken suggests the Nazca lines and other complex constructions represent higher technological knowledge than he believes existed when the glyphs were created. Von Däniken maintains that the Nazca lines in Peru are runaways of an ancient airfield that was used by extraterrestrials mistaken by the natives to be their gods.

Maria Reiche believes, based on computer-aided studies of star alignments, that the giant spider figure is an anamorphic diagram of the constellation of Orion. She further suggests that three of the straight lines leading to the figure were used to track the changing declinations of the three stars of Orion’s Belt.

0-800 CE

Great ceramists: polychrome potery, painted at least 15 distinct colors.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/nazca.htm

http://www.inkas.com/tours/lima/larco/museo_larco.html

http://www.about-peru-history.com/nazca-lines-in-peru.html

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/nazca/nazca-lines.htm