3 101 X One of the few known settlements of the Nazca culture, Dos Palmas was a large complex consisting of courtyards, corridors and rooms. Nazca houses were usually built of wattle and daub or tied canes. In the surrounding Pisco valley a vast network of irrigation ditches were constructed in pre-Columbian times.
#Dos Palmas, Pisco Valley irrigation ditches
4 101 X The settlement of Tambo Viejo seems to have been fortified with adobe walls at the time when Nazca pottery first appeared there. Within two walled areas, some 8000 rooms have been discovered. Houses here had stone foundations and the settlement also included plazas and shrines. The site seems to have been abandoned around AD 200.
#Tambo Viejo
5 101 X La Estaqueria was probably a religious site: a large earthen platform here originally supported an arrangement of wooden posts arranged in rows. Their forked tops may originally have supported a roof, but forked posts occur elsewhere as grave markers. Pottery here dates the monument to around AD 600-700 when Nazca was under Huari domination.
#La Estaqueria
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#IW Pottery
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#IW Trphy Heads
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#IW Nazca and Paracas
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#IW Cemeteries and Burials
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#IW Religious Practices and Beleifs
11 101 X After about AD 450, the character of Nazca sacred architecture changed, from adobe (sun-dried mud) pyramids to stone towers. Among the sites at which such towers were built was Pacheco near Cahuachi, where later there was a colony of the Huari state. Highland influences may be responsible for the architectural changes.
#Pacheco
12 101 X A Nazca cemetery at which eleven mummified trophy heads were found placed in shallow holes along the wall of a possible temple, along with a mummified puppy. Food offerings had been placed with the heads. Some were wrapped in cotton cloth and all were pierced to allow them to be carried on a rope.
#Chavina, Trophy head on rope
13 102 B On a hillside near the great Paracas necropolis is a vast figure of a strange tree resembling a candelabra; although differently executed to the Nazca Lines it may belong to the same tradition. It may have been intended as a marker, guiding seamen into the excellent harbour here.
#Paracas, Candelabra tree, Paracas
15 102 A Although they are most splendid examples of 'geoglyphs' (drawings in the ground), the Nazca Lines are not unique. Five hundred miles (800 km) to their south a smaller series of similar markings is known at Cerros Unitas. Among them is a huge human figure, similar to one among the Nazca Lines.
#Cerros Unitas, Human figure
XX 101 X A round tower at Huaca del Loro on the Tunga river was probably a late Nazca temple. Here finds included a number of curious remains that were presumably offerings, including a fossilized whalebone, llama bones and mummified macaws).
