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Figures only whole from above.
Also known as: Nazca lines, Desert geoglyph
The desert ground drawings of the Nazca region, made by clearing the surface stones.
Are formed on the Nazca desert surface by clearing stones to expose the lighter ground.
Contexts: History, Public information
Many figures are drawn as a single continuous line that does not cross itself, which has been read as indicating they were made to be walked rather than viewed.
Contexts: History, Public information
Survive because the surface is exceptionally stable and rainless, so their preservation is a fact about the desert rather than about how they were made.
Contexts: History, Public information
Figures and long straight lines formed by clearing dark surface stones to expose the pale ground beneath, some figures hundreds of metres across.