Posted on 04/20/2006 3:07:33 PM PDT by blam
Japanese researchers find new giant picture on Peru's Nazca Plateau
The new Nazca Plateau image discovered by the research team from Yamagata University. (Photo courtesy of Yamagata University)A new giant picture on the Nazca Plateau in Peru, which is famous for giant patterns that can be seen from the air, has been discovered by a team of Japanese researchers.
The image is 65 meters long, and appears to be an animal with horns. It is thought to have been drawn as a symbol of hopes for good crops, but there are no similar patterns elsewhere, and the type of the animal remains unclear.
The discovery marks the first time since the 1980s that a picture other than a geometrical pattern has been found on the Nazca Plateau.
The picture was found by a team of researchers including Masato Sakai, an associate professor at Yamagata University, after they analyzed images from a U.S. commercial satellite. They confirmed it was a previously undiscovered picture in a local survey in March this year. It is located at the south of the Nazca Plateau, and apparently went undiscovered since few tourist planes pass over the area.
There is evidence that vehicles had driven in the area, and part of the picture is destroyed.
Two parts of the picture, that appear to be horns, bear close resemblance to those that appear on earthenware dating from 100 B.C. to A.D. 600, during the time when the Nazca kingdom flourished, and it is thought that they relate to fertility rites.
The research team will use images from the advanced land-observing satellite "Daichi," which was launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in January this year, to create a distribution map of images on the earth that can be seen from the air.
"We want to identify all the images, and work to preserve earth pictures that are gradually being destroyed," Sakai said. (Mainichi)
April 20, 2006
And it wasn't me who misspelled trapezoid.
http://www.lost-civilizations.net/inca-nazca-lines.html
I think #4 is a landing strip with a bird decoration!
The one at the top looks like an arrow pointing to north.
Ancient directions to the gringo border?
Two parts of the picture, that appear to be horns, bear close resemblance to those that appear on earthenware dating from 100 B.C. to A.D. 600, during the time when the Nazca kingdom flourished, and it is thought that they relate to fertility rites
Why is it that all these finds seem to have something to do with fertility rites.
Wow, sort of like 'crop circles' in stone but not.
LOL!
Yog sothoth, baby!
#15 is *definitely* a Bogen tripod with a Manfrotto ball head.
I'm a photographer.
I know these things.
[rofl!]
What is it doing on terrain? Don't they usually put these on flat land?
I swear if you outline the bottom part of that it is the Venus de Milo...
E.T's Pregnant!
Johnny Cloverseed was a chronic drunk and the cows followed him faithfully.
I don't know. Try contacting blam.
Hay Sync! You have a good imagination but I think your metal sculptures reflect it much better than your .. uh ... paintshop drawings. Heh heh
I read a lot of the GGG threads that are posted here but those about ancient dwellings and mounds interest me the most. These lines are interesting to me because of their scale. It would seem that mountainous terrain would pose a much greater difficulty than flat land. Those on flat land are the ones I'm vaguely familiar with.
Sometimes crop circles are done on terrain and you wonder how they do the layout. It has to involve more than scaled up drafting tools. The Nazca figures were done without being able to see them from above unless they had hot-air balloons, which is barely possible, but on flat land it could be done without much trouble even if nobody could see the results.
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