The Nazca Lines in Peru are enormous geoglyphs etched into the desert floor that are more easily viewed from the air. These ancient glyphs take the form of extensive straight lines, geometric shapes and figures such as plants, animal and humans. Created by the Paracas and Nazca cultures, it's not certain what they were used for but many wild hypotheses have been suggested over the years. A project carried out in 2018 by Yamagata University in Japan, the results of which have just been published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, used Deep Learning to detect more of these enigmatic geoglyphs. In this video I discuss the ancient mystery that is the Nazca Lines, as well as the latest ones to be identified.
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✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
00:48 The Nazca Lines
06:43 Yamagata University Research
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Sakai, M., Lai, Y., Canales, J.O., Hayashi, M. and Nomura, K., 2023. Accelerating the discovery of new Nasca geoglyphs using deep learning. Journal of Archaeological Science, p.105777.
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Google Earth
Location of Nazca Lines
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Line-type and relief-type images, credit: Figure 1 in the paper referenced above.
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Thumbnail: Nazca Lines, credit: Diego Delso
Pelican geoglyph, credit: Diego Delso
Monkey geoglyph, credit: Diego Delso
Spider geoglyph, credit: Diego Delso
Hummingbird geoglyph, credit: Diego Delso
Flower geoglyph, credit: Fabian65
VIdeo of the Nazca Lines, credit: Pierre André
Straight line, credit: Diego Delso
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Formation of Nazca lines, credit: nikola_pu
Cahuachi, credit: Ed88
Nazca pottery, credit: Lyndsayruell
Amazon geoglyphs, credit: Sanna Saunaluoma
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Paracas candelabra, credit: Alex Zanuccoli
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Puquios aqueduct
Nazca textile
