Anthony F. Aveni

The Nazca line drawings of southeastern Peru have inspired a great deal of speculation. As large geometric designs fully visible only from the air, carved over a millennium before the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, they might naturally lead one to wonder: Could extraterrestrials have built this"

In this excerpt from his book Between the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, Peru (2000), Anthony F. Aveni criticizes theories that attribute the Nazca line drawings to extraterrestrial or supernatural forces. Aveni serves as Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology at Colgate University, and has written twenty books on ancient civilization. He argues that the Nazca sculptors may well have had a self—contained artistic vision of their own.

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