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this territory is pretty arid because
there's no water for most of the Year
their dwellings were along valleys which
are really small Oasis in the middle of
the desert
archaeologists named the ancient group
of farmers and fishermen who once lived
here the Nazca after the local River
Valley
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they use the surrounding desert plateaus
as a canvas for drawing giant geoglyphs
covered these paints with geoglyphs and
turned this desert into a space which
was inhabited Dynamic social and vibrant
Through Time
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the identification to identify and
categorize these geoglyphs we take a
stylistic approach we compare them with
Ceramics and textiles
find similar motifs
but not from the Nazca period
these geoglyphs date to the year 200 or
300 BCE which means that they were made
before the famous Nazca geographs
the hillside geoglyphs were created
earlier than the NASCAR are thought to
have existed
so who was making geoglyphs before the
Nazca and why
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in the 1920s Julio Cesar Tayo
first Peruvian archaeologist found 429
mummies wrapped in extraordinary
textiles in an ancient burial ground
in the paracas peninsula
so archaeologists called the ancient
people the paracas
funerary bundles are stored in Lima in
the national museum of archeology
anthropology and history of Peru
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the Fabrics the mummies were wrapped in
revealed the extraordinary skill and
Artistry of the paracas
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and the images and symbols provide
insight into their world view
there are shamans and trances deities
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severed heads
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one of the most iconic paracas textiles
has only recently arrived at the Museum
wow
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in the 1930s
excavations in the paragas peninsula
there was a lot of lutein and some
pieces this one among them were taken
out of the country it ended up in Sweden
this is the first time archaeologist
Delia Aponte has been able to examine
the 2 000 year old mantle
I'm happy I've always wanted to see this
piece I'm surprised by the use of color
for the paracas colors have meaning and
the way they organize them is important
it's part of their identity there is a
symbolism which haven't deciphered yet
but which is definitely there
the paracas imbued their funerary
textiles with meaning and Dahlia is
particularly interested in their
symbolism
here we have a toad associated with
humidity and agriculture a few plants
are sprouting from its back
here there is a condor
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hummingbirds drinking from a flower
I've been in the form of a human
the imagery related to animals and
edible plants throughout the seasons
suggests that the paracas textile is a
symbolic representation of the
Agricultural cycle
I think this is a masterpiece the
Pinnacle of 900 years of these society's
development
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many of the paracas images strongly
resembled the newly identified Hillside
geoglyphs found in the Nazca region
it suggests the desert Figures were
created by the paracas
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happened to the barakas
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bio archaeologists and forensic
anthropologist Elsa tomasto kahigao
looked to DNA for an answer
and got a surprise
there is a DNA type which is
specifically inherited from the mother
and it's very easy to classify in Native
American populations there are only four
lineages ABCD and when I did that test
for research purposes it turned out I
matched the delineage most common among
the paracas
DNA analysis of human remains dating
from 800 BCE to the year 800 helps
explain what became of the paracas
area it's very difficult to
differentiate biologically between the
barakas and the Nazca they are
genetically very similar yes we find
cultural differences which makes sense
as the centuries go by people changing
the way they behave
the research suggests that sometime
before the year 100 the culture of the
people living in the region shifted
and the paracas became the Nazca
and while the Styles changed the Nazca
continued the paraka's line making
traditions