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ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE CULTURE NAZCA
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PotteryThe Nazca culture is characterized by its beautiful polychrome pottery, painted with at least 15 distinct colors. The shift from post-fire resin painting to pre-fire slip painting marked the end of Paracas-style pottery and the beginning of Na... |
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ECONOMY IN THE CULTURE NAZCA
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Nazca subsistence was based largely on agriculture. Iconography on ceramics and excavated remains indicate that the Nazca people had a varied diet, composed of maize, squash, sweet potato, manioc and achira, and even a small trace of various fish. Th... |
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SOCIETY OF THE CULTURE NAZCA
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Social structureEarly Nazca society was made up of local chiefdoms and regional centers of power centered around Cahuachi, a non-urban ceremonial site of earthwork mounds and plazas (Valdez, 1994). Scholars have developed theories resulting from vari... |
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HISTORY OF THE CULTURE NAZCA
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Time frameNazca society developed during the Early Intermediate Period and is generally divided into the Proto Nazca (phase 1, 100 BCE – CE 1), the Early Nazca (phases 2-4, CE 1-450), Middle Nazca (phase 5, CE 450-550) and Late Nazca (phases 6-7, CE ... |
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NAZCA CULTURE
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The Nazca culture (also Nasca) was the archaeological culture that flourished from 100 to 800 CE beside the dry southern coast of Peru in the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca drainage and the Ica Valley (Silverman and Proulx, 2002). Having be... |
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