Sketchpad Nasca / Nazca

Spirits in the Sand and other explanations, some quirky, some not.

International opinion about the Nasca Lines seems to take its cue from National Geographic www.ngm.com/nasca. In a March 2010 article NGM writer Stephen Hall and photographer Robert Clark provided a "middlebrow" introduction to the current controversies regarding this ancient subject. With the claim that in the article the "ancient Nasca Lines of Peru shed their secrets" [still far from achieved] and with a chosen title "Spirits in the Sand" the authors (with perhaps a deal of editorial recrafting from NGM) take a flight over the lines noting in particular the Mono and the Colibri and list previous explanations from a heterogeneous array of sometimes self-appointed specialists. Some explanations are distinctly quirky - including "Inca roads, irrigation plans, images to be appreciated from primitive hot-air balloons, landing strips for alien spacecraft". . . . and so on.

Maria Reiche

However  the approach turns more serious. Maria Reiche as the great "Protector" which achieved recognition for the lines, , , , , ,