Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
During roughly the same period, the Nazca culture (200 BC to AD 600), to the south,
was producing an array of painted pottery, as well as incredible weavings that showcased
everyday objects (beans, birds and fish), in addition to supernatural cat- and falcon-men in
an array of explosive colors. The Nazca were skilled embroiderers: some weavings feature
tiny dangling figurines that must have induced blindness in their creators. (Well-preserved
examples can be seen at the Museo Andrés del Castillo in Lima,
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.
) The culture
is best known, however, for the Nazca Lines (
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)
, a series of mysterious geo-
glyphs carved into a 500-sq-km area in the southern Peruvian desert.
For an excellent primer to all of Peru's pre-Hispan-
ic art, pick up Ferdinand Anton's
The Art of Ancient
Peru
. The descriptions are concise and accessible
and the topic comes laden with almost 300 large-
scale photographic images.
