Mysterious Etchings in Peruvian Desert Prove to Be Foreign Birds. What Did They Mean to the Pre-Incans?

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Scientists analyzed the bird-shaped Nazca Lines, finding that this geoglyph that was thought to show a hummingbird is really a bird called a hermit.
Credit: Masaki Eda
▼ The sprawling Nazca Lines have long been cloaked in mystery. The enormous geoglyphs number in the thousands and portray everything from animals and plants to seemingly mythical beasts and geometric patterns. Now, researchers have found some of Peru's massive creations depict non-native birds.
Among the 16 massive bird carvings in the Nazca desert of southern Peru are a hermit (a forest species) and a pelican (a coastal denizen), according to new research published yesterday (June 19) in the Journal  of Archaeological Science: Reports.
No one knows why the Nazca Lines were made, and it's too early to say why the pre-Inca people who carved them would have been interested in non-native birds, said study co-author Masaki Eda, a zooarchaeologist at the Hokkaido University Museum in Japan.
Nazca mystery
The Nazca Linesare enormous geoglyphs, created with piled stones or carved into the dry desert ground. Most are geometrical shapes or drawings of animals made with one continuous line; they're best viewed from the airor from surrounding hillsides.

The Nazca Lines in Peru take the form of various animals, plants and geometric shapes. Here, the so-called Owl Man or Spaceman.
Credit: Ron Ramtang/Shutterstock
The Nazca people began crafting these lines — both by carving into the desert and using piles of stones — around 200 B.C. Archaeologists suspect they had a religious purpose, (▪ ▪ ▪)

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ssangra

possibly people were just marking  habitations of select beings ...birds animals humans etc from approach path ...maybe the approchers were hunters mua ha ha ha

Jbnast

Completely amazing how they could accomplish this.