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Language: en
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candy Hurtado is an ethnomusicologist
from Hal ha in the highlands east of
Lima
she's studying rituals and has come to
Nazca to record the Water festival
in the end the end world view we
understand that time is not linear but
that it is cyclical so that we are
always through ritual connecting with
the past the present and the future
we're connected to our ancestors we are
connected to the people that come after
us in a very real way as well as to the
environment the environment is also
considered our ancestors
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archaeologists studying the environment
to piece together the Nazca story have
made surprising discoveries
using drone images they've identified a
different type of geoglyph
IC not on the flat desert plateaus but
on the hillsides
foreign
and his team are restoring his latest
discovery
a very faded geoglyph
I foreign
years of erosion have damaged the
geoglyph
Johnny's team moves Stone after Stone by
hand to re-expose the lighter layer
below
it's a painstaking process
when we realized that on the hillside
there were other figures other geoglyphs
we realize we have to change the way we
thought and look to the hillsides where
we didn't think there were any drones
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the team has revealed the outline of a
group of people walking
but it needs more work
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the desert hillsides have long been
overlooked
but now there is Newfound interest in
them
most striking finds of recent times
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it's the Mountain Cat the Pampas cat an
animal in danger of extinction
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10 000 miles away in Yamagata Japan
archaeologist masato Sakai studies Drone
footage from the Nazca desert
he's turned to a high-tech method of
searching for geoglyphs
artificial intelligence
at the beginning we were looking at the
northern Nazca planes where hummingbirds
monkeys and other famous geoglyphs are
concentrated
we let AI learn from these famous
geoglyphs and other data from this area
by analyzing aerial images computer
algorithms can spot the cleared surfaces
that form the figures
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once the AI knows what to look for it
begins scanning the desert for patterns
that appear human-made
the software homes in on a very faint
shape
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we discovered it is a geograph of a
person holding a club in the right hand
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