Artificial Intelligence Finds More NAZCA GEOGLYPHS In Peru!

The Nazca Lines in Peru are enormous geoglyphs etched into the desert floor that are more easily viewed from the air. These ancient glyphs take the form of extensive straight lines, geometric shapes and figures such as plants, animal and humans. Created by the Paracas and Nazca cultures, it's not certain what they were used for but many wild hypotheses have been suggested over the years. A project carried out in 2018 by Yamagata University in Japan, the results of which have just been published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, used Deep Learning to detect more of these enigmatic geoglyphs. In this video I discuss the ancient mystery that is the Nazca Lines, as well as the latest ones to be identified.
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✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
00:48 The Nazca Lines
06:43 Yamagata University Research
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✨ REFERENCES
Sakai, M., Lai, Y., Canales, J.O., Hayashi, M. and Nomura, K., 2023. Accelerating the discovery of new Nasca geoglyphs using deep learning. Journal of Archaeological Science, p.105777.
✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
Google Earth
Location of Nazca Lines
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Line-type and relief-type images, credit: Figure 1 in the paper referenced above.
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Thumbnail: Nazca Lines, credit: Diego Delso
Pelican geoglyph, credit: Diego Delso
Monkey geoglyph, credit: Diego Delso
Spider geoglyph, credit: Diego Delso
Hummingbird geoglyph, credit: Diego Delso
Flower geoglyph, credit: Fabian65
VIdeo of the Nazca Lines, credit: Pierre André
Straight line, credit: Diego Delso
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Formation of Nazca lines, credit: nikola_pu
Cahuachi, credit: Ed88
Nazca pottery, credit: Lyndsayruell
Amazon geoglyphs, credit: Sanna Saunaluoma
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Paracas candelabra, credit: Alex Zanuccoli
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Puquios aqueduct
Nazca textile

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[@StereoSpace]

Interesting that AI turns out to be a useful tool for finding these geoglyphs in the landscape. Also, I had no idea they built aqueducts, including buried aqueducts. They were clearly a more sophisticated society than I realized.

[@MegalithHunter]

Yes I had never read about the aqueducts before and wasn't aware maize and molluscs had been found on the geoglyphs. The Nazca Lines have always fascinated me.

[@benchilders571]

More great content. I definitely appreciate the critical eye you are giving these subjects

[@MegalithHunter]

I appreciate that! 🙂

[@SuperRobinjames]

Thanls, Maria Reiche spent 4 decades studying the lines, I haven!t delved into her work yet, most interesting to me is the sophistication of the underground water management system.

[@MegalithHunter]

I must have a look at her work!

[@barrywalser2384]

The Nazca glyphs are captivating. Such big, bold messages from the past. I almost wonder if some of them were art for art’s sake. However, that leaves the linear types. Perhaps they point to an important terrestrial place on the horizon. Such as a reliable water source in the desert. Just speculation. Need more research, of course. Thanks for all you do Laura!

[@MegalithHunter]

I like the art idea. The Paracas culture produced embroidered works of art so why not extend that to the desert landscapes? The straight lines have always baffled me more though. It's a shame there's not enough evidence to support the astronomical hypotheses because alignments would make sense to me. Thanks for watching Barry!

[@davidcreager1945]

That's really cool !!! Just when you think you know everything about a site , something like this pop's up. I'm glad that these lines were put in a remote place, otherwise I bet they would have been destroyed.

[@MegalithHunter]

True! But also makes it harder for us all to take a little wine-fuelled outing there. See comment below haha

[@321camman]

i love the photos good work .

[@MegalithHunter]

Thank you!

[@arkaig1]

I'm curious about the straight line age versus pictures. I can see folks lovingly doing pictures, then after the pantheon was depicted, getting enamored with Scale. 'Stupid human tricks' becomes social art becomes, 'power in our union', 'we can do bigger!' IMHO. *A* way to look at it it if the timeline fits, evolution-of-power and all that. Could also be CO-incident or overlapping (American three-branch-'government' etc.). [Sorry about deleting the Hyla-Etruscans post; I was unsure about it being overly or unwantingly distracting, under review, and said heck.]

[@davidcreager1945]

Ps. Why oh why , don't you have your own show on the History Channel ! ? !

[@MegalithHunter]

Good point! Someone ask the History Channel 😂 and while you're at it, ask the KZbin algorithm why it loves me, then hates me, then loves me again. lol

[@waynesworldofsci-tech]

Rats, dog wanted a long walk, missed the premiere. As an aside I read Von Danikin’s book when it came out. I was in high school still and didn’t have the tools to dissect it, so it seemed believable.

[@MegalithHunter]

Yes I read his work when I was a teenager. To be fair, although I am not into the ancient astronaut idea, his work did inspire me to buy books on the Mayans. I wish we had learnt such subjects in school but in England our history lessons were pretty much limited to the Romans and WWII.

[@waynesworldofsci-tech]

@@MegalithHunter No idea what and how they teach it now. Our youngest is thirty, so I’m a little out of touch on that. It should be taught if it isn’t. Do you know John Mead? All kids need at least one teacher like him.

[@scottzema3103]

I believe many were sacred ambulatories, like the floor mazes in the floors of medieval cathedrals. That is, acolytes would walk the images to incorporate the spirituality of the various creatures depicted. Spiritual paths.

[@MegalithHunter]

That’s definitely one of the most convincing hypotheses. A ceremonial pathway of sorts.

[@scottzema3103]

@@MegalithHunter And I was thinking those flying saucer straight runways may have been ceremonial processionals.

[@tinkerstrade3553]

Wild theories, huh? We live on a billboard along a galactic hwy. The Nazca were early advertisers. Monkey Burger, anyone?🤣

[@MegalithHunter]

Haha! That's it!

[@321camman]

i think they where used to cast spells over the land .

[@vulpesvulpes5177]

Thank you for yet another fine presentation. But really? You want my comments! Ok here goes. Just remember you asked for it. Silly human girl. I think that there was something basic going on there. These things are like crop circles; best appreciated from above. In a time when above was largely inaccessible. Like every other archeological mystery when you don’t have an apparent answer evoke religion. So. Ok. What is religion, broadly speaking. It’s a form of social organisation to so end. Let me explain. These people developed some impressive large scale engineering capability. Especially in the exploitation of ground water resources. Basically in visualising aquifers and then building series of elaborate wells to tape the water in such a way as to achieve hydrostatic flow to the surface. This allowed them to farm and support populations in an arid inhospitable area. But elaborate and sophisticated building skills are perishable on a cultural time scale. Lacking any means to archive this knowledge…no Nasca agricultural and industrial university do to speak… what to do? Build well. Beyond that. Do as every military does. When not actively engaged in your trade, practice practice practice. Suppose then that every generation had to produce a Geo glyph of sorts to retain the institutional knowledge of how to make something big that you can’t readily see. Thus the “lines” test the mapping and visitation skills of your engineers, priests? And the organisational skills of your labor force. Just a more practical idea that pops to mind. We can further this line of thought by examining the NASCAR culture of North America. Possibly evolved from the nasca culture. The NASCAR neogeoelipses are basically constructed by the neo-moonshine culture to perpetuate the art of rum-running in tanker cars. The actual process has been stylised such that only the left turn is practiced, all be it at high speed over extended duration. It was determined by the high priests that this was sufficient to retain the art on social memory. Should this become monotonous large amounts of moderately alcoholic malted beverages are provided to calm the nerve of those so instructed by participation. This seems to work over time as the third generation attests. Truly an interesting situation. More study is indicated. A field team equipped with adequate beverage and several chilled water melons should be able to glean additional information on site. At least it would be one hell of a party… er expedition. Maybe NatGeo could fund such. As usual. Fox out.

[@barrywalser2384]

I’m up for that expedition! 🍻When do we leave? 😆

[@vulpesvulpes5177]

@@barrywalser2384 Just as soon as Laura gets our beer money, uh, funding and the melons chill. Anything for science. Fox out

[@raclark2730]

Take enough Datura and you will get an arial view of the geoglyphs.

[@barrywalser2384]

@@vulpesvulpes5177 Anything for Science! 😄

[@vulpesvulpes5177]

@@raclark2730 Datura. Is that like peyote? Or weed? I’m not into botanicals. Would beer work? Fox out

[@madderhat5852]

And yet they call the police when I use my Hoover on a golf course. Classists.

[@MegalithHunter]

I have so many questions... lol

[@ketchupcommander]

humans are not responsible

[@ketchupcommander]

Ai aint as good as the human mind