Rethinking the Nazca Lines: Human authorship, chronology, and new interdisciplinary discoveries

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Between about 500 BCE and 700 CE, ancient Paracas and Nazca communities created the Nazca Lines by clearing dark gravel to reveal lighter subsoil for ritual or water-related purposes, and newer drone and AI research, including work by Yamagata University researchers, has found hundreds more geoglyphs, showing regional variation and cultural development that points to human authorship and finds no verifiable evidence of alien builders.