Peru’s Nazca Lines are not the work of a single group of people, but two separate groups that lived in different regions of the desert plateau and used the etched geoglyphs for pilgrimages to an ancient temple for religious rites, researchers claim in a new study.
According to LiveScience, the authors of the study explained the purpose of the Nazca Lines may also have changed over the course of time. While the very first ones were created so that pilgrims would be able to view the geoglyphs along their processional route, later travelers might have broken ceramic pots on the ground where the lines intersected as part of a ritual.
The findings are based on the recent discovery of 100 new geoglyphs and broken ceramic pieces at the intersection points of some of the lines, and analysis of the location, style and construction method of these recently-discovered features, by experts at Japan’s Yamagata University. Their findings were presented last month at a meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
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