La American University

Nazca
Lines
• Carlos • Rolando
Mejia Valle
• The Nazca Lines are a group of
geoglyphs made in the soil of the
Nazca desert in southern Peru.
• They were created between 500 B.C.
and 500 A.D . by people making
depressions or shallow incisions in the
desert floor.
Major phases of the Nazca lines:
• Paracas phase, from 400 to 200 B.C.
• Nazca phase, from 200 B.C. to 500 A.D.

Between 80 and 100 new figures had been found

with the use of drones, and archaeologists believe
that there are more to be found.
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• The combined length of all the
lines is more than 1,300 kms and
the group covers an area of about
50 kms/2.
• The lines are typically 10 to 15
cms (4–6 in) deep.
• The width of the lines varies
considerably, but more than half
are slightly more than 33 cms (13
in) wide. In some places they may
be only 30 cms (12 in) wide, and
in others reach 1.8 ms (6 ft) wide.
Some of the Nazca Because of its
Lines form shapes isolation and the dry,
that are best seen windless, stable
from the air (at climate of the plateau,
around 500 mts the lines have mostly
[1,600 ft] been preserved
naturally.

The shapes are As of 2012, the lines

usually made from are said to have been
one continuous line. deteriorating because
The largest ones are of an influx of
about 370 mts (400 squatters inhabiting
yd) long. the lands.
 Shapes
• The figures vary in
complexity. Hundreds are
simple lines and geomatric
shapes; more than 70
arezoomorphic designs.
• Scholars differ in
interpreting the purpose of
the designs, but in general,
they ascribe religious
significance to them.
• They were designated in
1994 as a UNESCO World
Heritage Site.
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