Sentences with phrase «made geoglyphs»
The Paracas also made geoglyphs, and the Chincha Valley contains two kinds, explains Charles Stanish, an archaeologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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To understand the purpose of the geoglyphs, Stanish and his team first had to confirm that the lines were made by the Paracas people.
«They can actually make a good case that there is a consistent association between well - dated settlements, these geoglyphs that are notoriously hard to date, and astronomical phenomenon.»
The study [doi: 10.1073 / pnas.1614359114] states «We reconstructed environmental evidence from the geoglyph region and found that earthworks were built within man - made forests that had been previously managed for millennia.
Deforestation and development in the rainforest, too, has made it possible to find many geoglyphs that would otherwise be hidden from view.
Even though the first geoglyphs were discovered in the region in the 1970s, archaeologists still aren't sure about how they were made or what purpose they served for the people that carved them into the Earth some 700 years ago.