The Nazca Lines A New Perspective on their Origin and Meaning edition by Johan Reinhard Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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Over two millennia ago gigantic figures and lines began to be drawn on the surface of the desert near the town of Nazca in southern Peru. Depictions of animals and birds, geometrical designs, and human-like figures were made on such a scale, including some over 100 m long, that they could only be seen without distortion from the air. This collection of geoglyphs (earth drawings), known today as the Nazca Lines, is considered to be one of the most baffling enigmas of archaeology.
In this book the Nazca geoglyphs are analyzed in terms of traditional religious concepts and economic practices found in the region and elsewhere in the Andes. Archaeological, ecological, and historical information is utilized in the development of a theory to explain the lines and figures as part of religious practices designed primarily to insure the availability of water and the fertility of crops.
Note to the edition The Nazca Lines was first published in Peru in 1985 and the last, revised edition--with over 70 photographs and illustrations--appeared in 1988. There have been several reprintings since then, but the book has been difficult to obtain outside of Peru and is currently out-of-print. The most important scientific investigations undertaken since the last edition appeared have supported (or at least not contradicted) the original theory presented here, hence significant changes have not been required to be made in the text or in the conclusions. Finally, the book still contains information not to be found elsewhere, and the eBook version allows this to become accessible to a wider public.
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Any publication by Johan Reinhard is a gift to all those interested in Andrean pre-history. One of his great gifts is to distill a vast amount of research into highly accessible and densely informative texts that bring the mystery of these ancient sites into dramatic profile. This is the best single source on the Nazca lines. While other publications focus on the visible scale of the lines, with descriptions of how they appear and how they might have been constructed. Reinhard offers the most compelling and scientifically grounded theory as to why they were created- the far more compelling line of inquiry. The book has the most accurate maps and a compelling set of references, especially in the fields of ethnohistory, iconography and sacred geography. Without doubt this is the book that every traveler should have at hand as he or she visits Nazca and contemplates the wonder of the ancient past on the coast of Peru.
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