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...according to Dr. Persis B. Clarkson, an archaeologist and geoglyph expert at the University of Winnipeg “ It was not a difficult technology.all you need is the will.” It would have just taken careful and diligent attention to sight the lines. To prove this, a group of 10 Earthwatch volunteers helped an astronomer and anthropologist, Anthony Aveni, in a study of the Nazca lines. In just and hour and a half, without a printed plan, they created a straight line winding into a spiral 35 meters long and one meter wide.
Why Were the Lines Made?This question is not quite so easy to answer, for there are dozens of theories and no conclusive hard evidence to point to one absolutely. Why would these ancient people make drawings so huge that they could not be appreciated from the ground, but only fully from above? Perhaps that was the point; they were intended for the eyes of the gods, as a sort of offering to them. The Nazcan’s were very religious, and much of their life revolved around the growing of crops. Their very lives depended on it, and no doubt they wanted to insure the good will of the gods. Or perhaps there was a more practical purport to the seemingly pointless lines in the desert?
Julian Nott (who also wrote the theme music for Wallace and Gromit) investigated the theory that the drawings were intended to be viewed by flying humans. He built and successfully flew a hot-air balloon woven from local reeds and sealed with smoke from a wood fire http://nott.com/nazca, and photographed the terrain from 300 ft above.Our forebears were a lot less prone to absurd superstition, and a lot more inclined to a bit of fun and applied science, than any modern theist would like you to believe.
Now here's an interesting point.
A qualified professional aeronaut builds a balloon using techniques and materials that were available locally, thousands of years ago, flies it in perfect conditions over a desert (Nazca is exceptionally windless) and shows that it can be fun to look at large artworks from above. People go sightseeing in balloons, helicopters and small planes every day, from the Pyramids to New York. And my learned friend dismisses this as a terrible idea requiring exceptional motivation, etc.
Contrary to the popular belief that the lines and figures can be seen only with the aid of flight, they are visible from the surrounding foothills.
In December 2014, Greenpeace activists irreparably damaged the Nazca Lines while setting up a banner within the lines of one of the famed geoglyphs.
(3) there's a huge difference between having the material to accomplish something and having technology to do it
(4) There's never been any evidence that any people anywhere in the world were flying in balloons thousands of years ago