Dating the geometric Nasca lines in the Peruvian desert

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dc.contributor.author	Rink, Jack W.	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-18T19:15:52Z	-
dc.date.available	2014-06-18T19:15:52Z	-
dc.date.created	2010-02-05	en_US
dc.date.issued	2005	en_US
dc.identifier.other	star_pubs/2	en_US
dc.identifier.other	1001	en_US
dc.identifier.other	1133573	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11375/15100	-
dc.description.abstract	<p>The Nasca lines are geoglyphs – arrays of stones forming geometric shapes constructed by ancient humans, the largest ones occupying areas of more than 1km2. The authors used optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz buried when the stone lines were constructed to give new dates for contexts associated with geoglyphs on highmesetas near Palpa. They conclude that the stone lines at sites at San Ignacio and Sacramento were constructed betweenAD400 and 650. This suggests that they were made in the later part of the Early Intermediate Period by people of the Nasca culture.</p>	en_US
dc.subject	Geoglyph	en_US
dc.subject	Optical Luminescence Dating	en_US
dc.subject	Geochronology	en_US
dc.subject	Nasca	en_US
dc.subject	Anthropology	en_US
dc.subject	Archaeological Anthropology	en_US
dc.subject	Earth Sciences	en_US
dc.subject	Social and Behavioral Sciences	en_US
dc.subject	Anthropology	en_US
dc.title	Dating the geometric Nasca lines in the Peruvian desert	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US
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