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Hi. I would consider myself a recreational wikipedian. I enjoy perusing articles for bits of interesting information, and am happy to fix typos or organize images along the way. I make all my edits in good faith, and hope that they will add to the collective input to improve whatever I fiddle with. However, if I manage to royally screw something up, please let me know so I can fix it and refrain from repeating the mistake. Also, I'm really rusty on my rules for citations and copyrights, so feel free to point me in the right direction on those too. I hail from Northern California, so I tend to pay special attention to pages related to that topic or region. Other favorites include Metallica, rugby union, guitar and video games, natch.
Thanks!
The
Nazca lines are a group of
geoglyphs made in the soil of the
Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were created in two major phases – the
Paracas phase (from 400 to 200 BC) and the
Nazca phase (from 200 BC to 500 AD). The combined length of all the lines is more than 1,300 km (800 mi), and the group covers an area of about 50 km
2 (19 sq mi). Most lines run straight across the landscape, but there are also figurative designs of animals and plants. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but in general, they ascribe religious significance to them. The lines were designated as a UNESCO
World Heritage Site in 1994. This is an aerial view of the geoglyph known as the "monkey", one of the most well-known in the Nazca lines.
Photograph credit: Diego Delso
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