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Nazca culture and geoglyph production (Ica Basin, c. 100 BCE–800 CE)

Nazca culture and geoglyph production (Ica Basin, c. 100 BCE–800 CE)

  1. Paracas tradition precedes Nazca geoglyph making

    Labels: Paracas tradition, Ica Nazca

  2. Earliest major phase of Nazca geoglyphs begins

    Labels: Nazca geoglyphs, Nazca Desert

  3. Nazca culture emerges on Peru’s south coast

    Labels: Nazca culture, Ica Valley

  4. Cahuachi rises as major Nazca ceremonial center

    Labels: Cahuachi, Nazca River

  5. Nazca geoglyph production peaks across the pampas

    Labels: Nazca geoglyphs, Pampas

  6. Cahuachi shifts toward burial use and declines

    Labels: Cahuachi, Burial complex

  7. Puquios aqueduct construction expands in late Nazca times

    Labels: Puquios, Aqueducts

  8. Wari influence reaches the south coast after 600 CE

    Labels: Wari Empire, South coast

  10. Nazca Lines rediscovered by pilots in the 1920s

    Labels: Nazca Lines, Pilots

  11. Paul Kosok begins systematic study of the lines

    Labels: Paul Kosok

  12. Kosok’s 1941 aerial observations popularize interpretations

    Labels: Paul Kosok, Aerial survey

  13. María Reiche launches decades-long documentation and advocacy

    Labels: Mar a

  14. UNESCO inscribes Nazca and Palpa geoglyphs (World Heritage)

    Labels: UNESCO World, Palpa geoglyphs

  15. Nasca-Palpa Project expands systematic recording and analysis

    Labels: Nasca-Palpa Project

  16. Peru restores full reserve extent after 2025 boundary cutback

    Labels: Peruvian government, Protected reserve