ARTHI 6H Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Geoglyph, Sherd, Pampas
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A pilgrimage locale: people gathered together, many ceramics were made at cahuachi. Anthropomorphic mythical being: a common protagonist of nasca material culture. Among its defining iconography are a mouth mask and forehead ornament: represented in a lot of different ways. Geoglyph: earth drawing: best seen from above, a lot of straight lines. Located outside of where people live o o: about 75 made with designs. Over 100 feet long: despite appearing large, they are human in scale, paul kosok started to study these in the 1940s. Believed them to have astrological significance: others believed them to match up with astrological phenomena, maria reiche mapped the nasca lines intensively. Popularized them and made them the tourist attraction that they are today. Found old wooden posts the nasca used to map out the distance. Pilgrimage: a journey imbued with religious and/or cultural meaning, usually ending at a specific destination.
