Nazca Culture: Reading Between the Lines

[@conner13.c16]

So glad you are covering such an amazing culture from my country. Fun fact: It is said that Maria Reiche had an accident in Cusco in which she lost part of her middle finger, some time before discovering the lines. Coincidentally, the figures of the monkey and the hummingbird also depict only nine fingers. It is said that she interpreted it as a sign that her destiny was deeply tied to those lines.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! I did not know that!

[@cariopuppetmaster]

Godda be careful there are evil gods who live under the Nazca lines that like to play card games!

[@seasidescott]

They were the earliest Grateful Dead followers.

[@lewhensilvar3521]

Nazca pottery designs look so strangely modern, they almost feel like anime designs.

[@technopoptart]

it is the same idea(abstraction and reduction for aesthetic flow) so that is hardly a surprise~

[@seasidescott]

@@technopoptart - that necessitates a _shared_ aesthetic between the peoples. So the question remains as to how that came to be.

[@KorbinJones]

Learning about the Nazca and Paracas in the Ancient Andes class I’m taking for my M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. How serendipitous! Thanks for your content.

[@cabbyabby8490]

The elongated Paracus skulls are very exciting

[@TheLegendaryGentleman]

Thanks again as always for being such a wonderful Ally @Ancient Americas to the Indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere. You work weaves the fine path between informative and entertaining and makes your videos so accessible. From your friends at Indigenous Podcast, much love!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thanks Stephan! I hope you're catching the live cast tonight!

[@TheHortoman]

Ally? Hes just historically accurate bruh

[@masterd1mwitt830]

​@@TheHortoman considering how much doesn't make it into public school textbooks, and how few people try to learn beyond that, or even don't pay attention to the textbooks at all, he's one of the good ones

[@TheHortoman]

@@masterd1mwitt830 wouldnt you know dagoth boy

[@BirdRaiserE]

Yeah sorry, got to agree with the other guy. It's just historical literacy. Plus, if anything, the amount of times I hear "human sacrifice" in these videos furnishes me with the opinion that maybe the white man wasn't so bad after all.

[@evanturner-ewert6373]

You literally cannot pump out content fast enough! This is so stellar to watch and learn about.

[@AncientAmericas]

You're telling me. There's too much to cover and not enough time.

[@simplyhistory3998]

@@AncientAmericas I guess your the Willy Wonka of History :)

[@Rum-Runner]

The wait is always worth it though.

[@teresamexico309]

One of the greatest achievements of the Nazca people is no doubt the water management for the crops and their own use and consumption just like the Incas did in Machu Picchu with their ingenious design. I have been in both sites and they are impressive. Good video, thanks!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@PRH123]

Had never heard before of the nazca aqueducts, or of their pottery, or anything regarding their culture. Have seen countless shows and read countless articles about the lines over the years, wherein people mused about their purpose, and never said a word about the people who made them (or they said nothing is known about them, which i believed up until today). Just goes to show how little time was spent on research to prepare for the shows we watched over the last 50 years. And the incredible value that lone individuals can now do in bringing us this info via u tube etc. its often said, but have to say it again, that this kind of video has more value than 40 years of discovery channel content was ever able to produce. Thanks very much...!

[@AncientAmericas]

^This.^ I could not agree more. I remember when I first learned about Nazca culture rather than the lines and I was absolutely floored by how interesting and rich it was. Since then, I've always thought that the lines are one of the less interesting things about Nazca and I've wondered how the heck no one else noticed.

[@nebulan]

Next time someone starts talking about nazca lines we can interrupt and say "yeah nice pottery and textiles and what incredible aqueducts!"

[@AncientAmericas]

Exactly!

[@inthebeyond333]

So glad you’re covering this culture! Thank you for these informative videos!

[@AncientAmericas]

You're welcome!

[@hademvids]

This has, within minutes, became my absolute favorite artstyle. Absolutely stunning. And fantastic video presenting it and the culture surrounding it.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@solk.posner7201]

I remember learning about ancient Peru while in High School in Peru. Each civilization was as amazing as the last. My history course on the Nazca culture was pretty spot on what's in this video, truly an amazing culture. The best of all studying there, it seemed no matter were you were, there was an ancient ruin around a corner. One of the classes we visited this Pucllana ruin just two blocks away, as part of studying the Lima-Wari culture.

[@AncientAmericas]

That sounds awesome! I wish I could have learned about all this in high school.

[@grovermartin6874]

How magical your learning experience sounds! Even a boring teacher could not dampen the joy of discovery of your country!

[@jownadewewor3929]

it is truly remarkable how many rich and complex but widely obscure cultures have existed off the west coast of South America

[@AncientAmericas]

The Andes are one of the cradles of civilization. There's a lot there!

[@thelordandsaviorgigachadrr888]

0:24 this is also a major problem about how Prehistoric Native Americans are discussed in the US. I knew about Poverty Point and Cahokia since about 4th-5th Grade, but no one ever really bothered to tell what it was like. The focus was always on what these prehistoric people left behind. They would tell us some people built mounds, and then kind of leave that topic aside. The odd thing is, my school didn't try to cover up the mistreatment of the Natives, and we weren't given the false impression that there aren't any left today. It's just that they mainly focused on Natives like Pontiac and Tecumseh. That's neat, but basically we learned about the indigenous equivalent of post-apocalyptic warlords and regional strongmen, compared to the Mississippian Chiefs, Calusa Kings, and other authorities from the prehistoric and proto-historic periods. What also sucks is that we only learned about 3 early historic tribes of our state of Michigan, and not those who would have lived where we did before the Beaver Wars. We never learned about any of the mounds still extant, and nothing even about the 2 petroglyph sites in Michigan. We just learned that in the prehistoric period, Natives mined copper on Isle Royale and in the Upper Peninsula in general.

[@michaelrowave]

Looking back at field trips our schools took to the missions in California there was little mention of the people here before Spain arrived. Fortunately that has changed and improved some since but in California the shameful history of the genocide of indigenous tribes after the civil war as documented by the US Army officers leaves little doubt about why some politicians are reluctant to address the less convenient but factual history of the not-so-distant past.

[@sirenasaenz2299]

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[@seasidescott]

@@michaelrowave - I grew up around one of the missions and it was said the natives became the altar boys and helped build the churches and accompanying ranchos. "Oh, that sounds nice" is where it's just all settled and explained somehow. Meanwhile I'm thinking "wtf, enslaved and molested?" While the missions today are just a tiny percentage of the land they once possessed, some still have extensive holdings taken from the natives. Of course everyone else (Europeans) were stealing land so it comes off as more gentle somehow. The biggest problem for California natives to resist outside invasion was the lack of metals or hard rock for tools.

[@djpenton779]

Another excellent video. The art, pottery and textiles are gorgeous. I enjoy this channel, partly because it's a great break from the endless over-emphasis on Egypt, Rome, Napoleon, and such on many streaming services and history websites. Of course I enjoy those too....

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@jeremiasrobinson]

Your videos are a big inspiration! I am currently an anthropology student.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! I'm honored!

[@aleksandrakaczmarska]

Thank you, AA for yet another phenomenal material.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

YOOOOO new Andean video! I always love Andean cultures, they somehow simultaneously feel like the most typical early civilizations but also the most unique early civilizations. You really get a feel for the rise and fall of civilizations and all their common traits, but repeatedly get blindsided by art and engineering you wouldn't even imagine.

[@dirkcampbell5847]

Interesting video, thanks for creating! 10:00 fascinating short section on Nazca musical instruments (I'm a palaeomusicologist). Tried searching for performances of these instruments but all that came up was a modern band calling itself Nazca and a dumbed-down video on Andean instruments generally. If there is a video of authentic performances on these instruments I'd love to know about it!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@rainbows98]

Yay! Excited for this, will admit I don't know much about this culture outside of the art. Glad to be learning more.

[@tgarretteatonart]

Fascinating info about the Nazca well technology. Reminds me of the similar structures called Qanats from ancient Iran, also still in use.

[@tgarretteatonart]

oops, and then you mentioned them in the video haha

[@grovermartin6874]

@@tgarretteatonart There was an enlightening article in Aramco magazine about those across North Africa. Still in use after all these years.

[@KonradoHLeite]

So excited with each new Ancient Americas video!

[@scottjosen2606]

Just so appreciate your treating viewers as being sufficiently intelligent to absorb your content. No mention of ancient astronauts or reliance on now absent high technologies that today makes mere mention of 'archeology' seem like an invitation to 'knock, knock jokes. Thanks for providing solid answers and questions based on the solid available resources out there.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@eggboi4564]

Once again the timing of these videos is always perfect for me! This episode is right on time to save me from cabin fever because I have covid and have been stuck in my apartment for days.

[@AncientAmericas]

Glad I could help even if its just a little bit.

[@sansintierra]

Oh my... A new video the day I start reading "The dawn of everything" and begin pondering all the knowledge americans have amassed throughout millenia of thriving here? Yes, please, feed my new obsession. Thank you for taking the time and effort to research and write these videos. They go a long way to show the people of ancient times were no "savages" and we can learn so much from their experiences and history.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! Enjoy the Dawn of Everything! It's an engrossing read with a lot of food for thought.

[@FreeManFreeThought]

"The Dawn of Everything" is such an amazing book; I have read it twice now, and still am finding new things that interest me. I learned more from that book about the history of the area I live (British Columbia) than I did in 12 years of school... which is a pretty sad indictment of the Euro-centric North American history education.

[@juliajs1752]

I know it will never happen, but I would absolutely adore an episode done by you, in your style, on the current Western culture. What would a documentary about shopping malls and laptops sound like?

[@AncientAmericas]

Ah yes, the episode where I would alienate everyone with my culture criticism.

[@jessicajae7777]

Thank you. Im so tired of commercial reporting. i subscribed easily and gratefully

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you for subscribing!

[@dankcountryblumpkin4203]

Absolutely been loving your channel since I found it a couple months ago! It would be great if you covered the Zapotecs, they fascinate me due to their long-lasting presence across Mesoamerican history alongside the Maya!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! We'll definitely get to the zapotecs at some point.

[@terrywallace5181]

Another fascinating and informative program. Thanks!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@barbararowley6077]

Thank you for another fascinating episode. I’m one of the people who was only familiar with the famous lines, not the rest of the rich Nazca culture, so extra thanks are due!

[@igor-yp1xv]

Their early pottery is incredible to look at. I loved this episode, thanks so much! Enjoy your vacation.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@MangroveFig]

Maybe it’s just me but I see a lot more smiles in Paracas art than other ancient cultures and I’m digging it

[@sophroniel]

I am absolutely blown away by the beauty and vibrance of the art you showed from the Nazca peoples. I could watch pictures of them for hours ! !! Are your sources available online for us non academic/american folk?? I totally want to save some high quality pics and print them out to put on my wall 😍

[@AncientAmericas]

Of course! All the sources (including images) are in the sources and bibliography document in the video description. The same goes for my other videos as well. If you're looking for good photos, the online collection that impressed me the most during my research was the Nazca collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. They have a large collection that you can access online for free. The photos are high quality and best of all, they are in the public domain so you can do whatever you want with them!

[@jtmcgee]

YAY a great way to spend some of my Sunday.

[@MM-mx2zt]

My favorite Peruvian culture, Nazca fascinates me so much. Thanks for the video

[@AncientAmericas]

You're welcome!

[@MrPendraeg]

Love your Videos man! Thanks for a great 2022, looking forward to seeing you again in '23!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@hannahbrown2728]

Always a great day when an Ancient Americas video drops

[@AncientAmericas]

Glad I could make your day!

[@dovahqueen4607]

Enjoy the holiday season! I'll be eagerly awaiting what you'll be teaching us in 2023!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@corinnelaking569]

Excellent, informative video. Thanks for sharing all of this extra background on the Nazca people.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@portalthefella]

love to see more stuff on andean cultures! keep up the awesome videos

[@AncientAmericas]

Thanks Fella! Always love seeing your comments!

[@Simonjose7258]

26:06 That's an amazing construction of a pot! Wow!

[@AncientAmericas]

It's pretty cool!

[@Hurlebatte]

I really like the creamy and coffeelike hues they used in their pottery art.

[@AncientAmericas]

I believe those cream and buff colors are from the clay itself so anything made from that area should have them unless it's been completely painted.

[@kylehedrick9653]

Its always a good day when you upload. Thanks man. I appreciate your work.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@GringoLoco]

Very interesting! Thanks for bringing attention the fact the Nazca achieved more than just the geometric lines in the desert. The puquios, according to research by Lasaponara & Masini, their funnel shape captured the wind and concentrated it so as to "push" the water along. The earliest mention of the Nazca lines was in Pedro Cieza de Leon's "Cronica del Peru (c.1533), and as early as 1586 a Spanish colonial report by Monzon describes them as trails, which is correct in a broad sense because they are now thought to be ritual pathways. The anthromorphic lines are from a different era to the straight lines and trapezoid lines, because one is constructed right over the top of the other, and are thought to have been built several centuries apart. The animal figures such as the hummingbird were formed using a post and string method, much like modern surveyors use (and pranksters use to construct crop circles). Maria Reiche found some of these wooden posts and even calculated a standard unit they used, something akin to a yard or metre. Some theories say the rectilinear lines point to water sources, now dried up after tectonic events, others say the animal figures could represent zodiacal figures of the southern constellations. BTW the American explorer Hiram Bingham, who brought Machu Picchu to the world's attention, bought a collection of looted Nazca pottery and shipped them to the Peabody Museum under an assumed name (see Kim MaQuarrie's 2015 book "Life and Death in the Andes" , p168).

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! I'd actually been told about the theories of wind pushing water down the puquios but none of my sources mentioned it so I left it out. I appreciate you citing the authors. If I ever return to the topic, I'll want to give them a look!

[@henrimourant9855]

Excellent video. I wanted to learn more about the Nazca and this came just in time.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! PBS Nova actually just dropped a documentary on the Nazca a few weeks ago. I haven't watched it so I don't know how it is but if you want more, look that up on KZbin.

[@grovermartin6874]

@@AncientAmericas You are such a font of information and connections! Grazie!

[@ArtisticlyAlexis]

I love learning about these ancient cultures in the Americas, especially rock art sites including the rock shelters at Toca do Boqueirao da Pedra Furada and at Toca da Bastianna. They’re just so old that it forces people to realize that the cultures here weren’t primitive, but as filled with as much history as European & Asian cultures were/are!

[@jsmit9063]

Man I got sick and binged all your videos, excellent work! I've shared your channel with friends and can't wait for more content! Very clear and concise, thank you for your hard work!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@sycamoredrivemcr]

this is one of the best channels on youtube

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@mimikyumimikyu2052]

A really wonderful and informative video on a culture I’ve been fascinated by but always wanted to learn more about! The puquios are incredible stuff and it’s always a joy to hear more about Nazca textiles, thanks! 😊

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@OldieBugger]

I just watched a video about Celtic headhunters. They believed they received the power of vanquished enemies through the enemy heads taken as trophies. Perhaps the later Nazca warriors had similar ideas?

[@AncientAmericas]

It's certainly possible and plausible.

[@chrisshorten4406]

Thank you for making this! One of the characters in a story I've been working on is an ancient Nazca (having been magically mummified and later revived), but it's been very hard to find any information about the Nazca other than the famous geoglyphs in my research. This video was helpful.

[@zanthornton]

Thanks for captioning

[@j.m.b.greengardens968]

What a delightful thought! Making reproductions of ancient musical instruments and making music with them. San Pedro cactus is also known as Huachuma or Wachuma. I believe the language is Quechua.

[@jillatherton4660]

Splendid stuff, and wonderful ceramics. 👍

[@maquinavoladora2289]

This is the greatest youtube channel

[@AncientAmericas]

It's ok I guess. 😉

[@Vanished_Mostly]

Haven't watched yet, but I'd like to congratulate you on the clever title.

[@AncientAmericas]

Why thank you!

[@adanfuenets3148]

But really, nice learning more about them.

[@TheFatblob25]

Just saw a ton of Nazca art & pottery in Lima at the Larco museum...absolutely incredible work. Looking forward to checking out your other Peru videos! If anyone reading this is on the fence considering going to Peru, absolutely go! Incredible culture & country.

[@AncientAmericas]

Highly agree! Peru is well worth a visit!

[@barbarasmith3755]

Thank you for your respectful explanation of their culture and accomplishments (besides the "lines").

[@Alexrocksdude_]

Amazing video, I love learning about the ancient American cultures!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@ricchamen6304]

Thanks to you your teams and your subject matter. Absolutely Fantastic.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@blankface5052]

Ik this is only an hour old, but I feel like I’ve seen it before, deja vu. I’d love if you could do more about the genealogy of early Americans. I remember in anthropology always being fascinated by the Clovis people and frustrated w sentiments on the Kennewick man. I’d love a more detailed video breaking down the early immigrations and hopefully, refuting the European and African hypothesis. I did see the 25 minute video about first arrivals, but felt like it didn’t address a lot of the crazy, but mainstream, theories out there. A video on the ruins underwater Off the coast of florida would be really interesting too. Before anthropology, I never thought about how people naturally live by rivers and like our litter, stuff runs into the river and eventually the ocean. That along with sea levels rising for the past couple thousand years, make underwater anthropology really interesting. One of My old professors actually specialized in it.

[@blankface5052]

Also, I’m surprised you haven’t done a video on the Pueblo.

[@AncientAmericas]

I'll actually be covering some of the nutty pre-contact theories in a video next year so stay tuned.

[@anasevi9456]

19:50 but, but muh alienz! 🤣 Great video as always mate.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thanks!

[@johng4093]

Appreciate the timeline shown on left, and the chapter index, as well as the wonderful content of course. Puts you a notch above similar channels.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@rodrigochiberio5472]

I'm always deeply happy when I see a notification from your channel. All the videos are very high quality. But man, when the notification is for a South America civilization, or anything south America related, the happiness go over the top! I live in Portugal, but um Brazilian and had visited both Peru and Chile ( sadly not Bolívia), and man, I can't even start to describe the awe seeing some of the culture. At the time of my visits (2013 peru 2017 Chile), I doesn't knew like 5% of the things I know today, so sometimes, specially after your videos, my mind instantly carry me to those days. I even go see the pictures, specially the museum ones, to kind of guess ehat culture they belong. Hahahhah Thanks. Again!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! Glad to see someone loves the South American videos. They never get as much attention as the others.

[@grovermartin6874]

@@AncientAmericas They will, as your enlightening and exciting videos get out, I'm sure. It all takes time to seep into the collective consciousness. As someone else above mentioned, history of Egypt gets a little boring as the videos pound us into submission. I have hungered most of my life to understand more about the ancient cultures of the Peruvian coast. My interest has just been titillated since reading 1491, which primed my mind for your gratifying work. Thank you SO MUCH for all of your delving into the known and becoming-known of that fascinating land. And also, it is so refreshing that you pronounce the names correctly!

[@addisondraper6444]

That was awesome. Thank you for the great video. I look forward to seeing more of your work.. - the only addison

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@Asmodeus_1]

Those heads are so scary 😳, but I loved their pottery art! Great episode!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you. Those heads creeped me out too.

[@thongorshengar]

I love that you picked the underground canal/irrigation system as the Nazca greatest achievement. I always find these "mundane" but extremely important invention to be much more fascinating than great monuments. Yeah big pyramids are cool but these enviromental engineering to make inhospitable place more liveable are much more important. Some of these places changed permanently and alsohelped other life to thrive as well.

[@AncientAmericas]

Developments like those attest to how good ancient people were at solving problems.

[@blurke268]

I love your videos!!!!!!!.....wish growing up in school I would have learned all this....Keep making more please

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@nomeansno5481]

One topic I'd love to see you cover is the Antelope Creek culture of the Texas panhandle that emerged in the early 13th century and was defined by the importing of stone masonry and architecture into eastern North America further than it ever reached before, presumably as a result of contact and exchange of culture between Mississippian Caddoans from the Southeast and Puebloans from the Southwest.

[@AncientAmericas]

Never knew about this! Very cool culture!

[@algepaca]

I don't know how to express how happy these videos make me. Thank you so much!

[@sizanogreen9900]

Glad to hear about the Nazca culture & history beyond their lines. Great title btw. You should somehow add another word starting with "A" into your channel name because your content is truly triple A stuff.

[@AncientAmericas]

Amazing Ancient Americas!

[@Brian-os9qj]

Interesting and fun work my man. Totally enjoy the content.

[@mksemposki]

What an awesome video!!! Absolutely loved it!!!❤❤. Wish they could come out quicker but I can wait, lol!!!

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! If a generous donor wants to pay me a generous stipend, I'd be happy to churn out content faster.

[@grovermartin6874]

@@AncientAmericas ¡Ojala!

[@alexandrejose8362]

What a cheeky name!

[@YeamanME]

Remarkable work....your work is clearly an excellent introduction to all that is ancient in the Americas...

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@stonehengemaca]

These videos are fantastic. Thankyou. Had to clamber through a lot of nonsense before finding these informative gems.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! South American cultures are sadly often hijacked by quacks.

[@John_Weiss]

12:01 Now, that's interesting. Because slip-decoration and burnishing a pot takes a very, _very_ long time. It's a lot of slow, meticulous work. I know; it's one of my favorite techniques [ceramics is my hobby]. This means that the Nazca either had enough (1) spare-time that they could devote to making these pots; or (2) surplus crops that they could support an entire profession of potters who could devote the time to making these. This means that the Nazca weren't simple subsistence-farmers, just from the fact that they had the time to produce burnished pots in such numbers. Nope, there was a complex social and economic support-structure making it possible to burnish all of those pots. That the pots weren't restricted to an upper class says even more about the civilization supporting the artisans making all of those pots.

[@allones3078]

man you are cranking videos out

[@AncientAmericas]

I was this year but now its time for a month or two of rest.

[@allones3078]

@@AncientAmericas still faster than i make content

[@9493time]

I love your channel, I have always been fascinated with Pre-Colombian American history.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@murderh0b0]

Thank you very much for your videos. I love each and every one.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@ChandlerFaye]

Delighted to have a new video from you to watch. I just saw Wakanda Forever and ran home to re-watch some of your older videos so that I could prolong the joy I felt during the movie as its plot addressed some of the topics you cover. :)

[@MARGATEorcMAULER]

Thanks for another one of your captivating videos. I sensed some reluctance to covering the "Wari"(?),makes me even more curious about them.Guess we'll find out why when you do.?????

[@AncientAmericas]

There's actually a reason for that. I don't want to go into too much detail on the wari (or any other contemporary culture) because I'd like to cover them more fully in their own episode.

[@MARGATEorcMAULER]

@@AncientAmericasX-cellent! Looking forward to it.Happy Holidays

[@lhadzyan7300]

The Nazca throphee heads had been linked as other stuff as sort of a relation with modern Amazonian groups at the Ecuador-Peru regions nearby to the Andean mountains which maybe had a wisepread culture than it´ll became later on after the Spanish conquest and cultural influence over the centhuries later on. (During the 20th centhury it seemed that only the Jibaro/Schuar people of Ecuador kept the traditon of it.)

[@CluelessAnon]

7:40 Sorry, but no matter how many times I replayed this part of the video all I can hear is "the Anthropomorphic Mythical Bean" and this is absolutely hilarious to me. Absolutely fascinating video! Came for the Lines, stayed for the pottery. As a musician, I'm glad to learn about an ancient culture with so many musical artifacts to its name. Like you said, being able to analyze these instruments is the closest we'll ever be to "excavating the sound" of a long-gone civilization.

[@AncientAmericas]

The Anthropomorphic Mythical Bean does have a nice ring to it. Yeah, Nazca culture is really rich and fascinating when you look beyond the lines.

[@lkzhang820]

I have attended two courses taught by Helaine Silverman in UIUC this year，her classes often mention Nasca.

[@AncientAmericas]

I read a LOT of her research making this video. She does good work.

[@lkzhang820]

@@AncientAmericas I totally agree.

[@dudubroder]

I was waiting for this!

[@AncientAmericas]

I hope it was worth the wait!

[@MarcoWilkinson1]

Great video as always. I'd love to learn about the Charrua who inhabited what is now Uruguay.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you! The charrua would be an interesting topic someday.

[@kimberlygaray7860]

Thank you for another great video

[@AncientAmericas]

You're welcome!

[@InfernapeGames1]

Would you do a video about the intaglios in Blythe California and who built them

[@AncientAmericas]

I never knew these were a thing. I've added them to my master list. Thank you!

[@InfernapeGames1]

@@AncientAmericas theyre a hidden gem!

[@JamesFenczik]

Nice, I'd love to hear about the Sajama lines and their people too. (~30x larger than Nazca)

[@AncientAmericas]

Oooo!!! I never knew about these! Thank you!

[@igor-yp1xv]

The Mythical Killer Whale on the left at 8:38 is great source material for a Disney movie character

[@cabbyabby8490]

I would love to see you do one about the Chachapoya or the cloud people. That would be very cool to see. It's just not much about them

[@AncientAmericas]

I actually started a Chachapoya episode long ago but put it on the back burner. Someday I'll dust off the research and create an episode out it.

[@cabbyabby8490]

@@AncientAmericas that would be awesome thanks

[@jazzsmith5187]

these are amazing videos,thank you. are there any videos made about ancient Colombian civilzations ?

[@AncientAmericas]

If there are, they are likely in Spanish. There's little broad colombian research in English.

[@Pauliey365]

As someone who wants to be an Archeologist, who also wants to specialize in Peru, and traveling there soon for a trip; THANK YOU SIR.

[@AncientAmericas]

You're welcome! Enjoy your trip!

[@shine111]

It must have been so hard for you to sit on this amazing title for the time it took to actually make the video. Spectacular. Which I guess makes it a good representation of the video itself. 11/10 I still think my favourite theory about the nazca lines was presented in a donald duck comic, which posited that they were landing signs for traders from the highlands coming in on gliders. Is it plausible? No it's from donald duck. But is it more plausible than d*nicken? I'm gonna say yes, yes it is

[@AncientAmericas]

Funny you say that because I had this title in mind long before I ever started writing this episode up.

[@nozrep]

i have a friend from Peru and he was very proud to introduce me to Chicha. Purple chicha! From purple corn. Except it was not alcoholic and was very delicious ro drink. Like sweet purple cola, sorta kinda. Or sweet purple corn juice😅. Anyways it was really good and sooner or later I am that I will try the alcohol version of it.

[@AncientAmericas]

Interesting! I had never heard of a non-alcoholic chicha. I'll have to try when I get down to Peru.

[@franciscodelcastillo594]

@Ancient Americas yes, there is purple Chicha. It is not the same that the incas and their predecessors drank. With luck, a Peruvian restaurant in your town may sell a close facsimile to the actual drink.

[@grovermartin6874]

Is that the drink that has to be chewed by young virgins and spat into a container to ferment? Or was that another maize drink?

[@AncientAmericas]

@@grovermartin6874 only if you're the sapa inca himself.

[@trygveskogsholm5963]

I love this channel. If the history channel was entirely replaced by this channel on rerun it would be an improvement.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@michaelrowave]

Great episode.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thank you!

[@CaucAsianSasquatch]

Very happy to see you doing well bud.

[@AncientAmericas]

Thanks sasquatch!

[@CaucAsianSasquatch]

@@AncientAmericas you've earned it. Always excellent.

[@Jagdtyger2A]

Strange as it may be, there are Nazca style petroglophs in Southern California that uses motifs which resemble hose down in South America's plains