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A Nazca geoglyph depicting a human figure. The designs and lines created on the desert floor of southern Peru are known collectively as the 'Nazca Lines' and were made over several centuries between 200 BCE and 500 CE. Their exact purpose is not known.
This image was first published on Flickr.
Original image by Tobias Lange. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 10 March 2014 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
Lange, T. (2014, March 10). Nazca Line Human Figure. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/2368/
Lange, Tobias. "Nazca Line Human Figure." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified March 10, 2014. https://www.ancient.eu/image/2368/.
Lange, Tobias. "Nazca Line Human Figure." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 10 Mar 2014. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
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