Nazca 2

["Felix Ares" <fares@...>]

Un folleto turístico dice lo siguiente:

ICA / PARACAS / NAZCA 

This is an area with a long historical background. Its first dwellers are
estimated to have lived there 10,000 years ago. Outstanding pre-lncaic
cultures like Paracas, Nasca, Coastal Tiahuanaco and Ica developed there. 

The most important ones are without doubt, Paracas (7th C BC. to 2nd C
AD.), famous for its incomparable textiles, skull trephine and
mummification; and Nasca (3rd to 8th C AD.), renown for its artistic
ceramics of wonderful colors and designs, and of course, the Nasca Lines,
the tracing of which still remains inexplicable up to date, arising diverse
interpretations and theories. 

The Nasca Culture also built underground aqueducts, which permitted them to
farm in the deserts. In the 15th C, Inca Pachacutec conquered this area
(Ica, Nasca, and the Valley of Chincha) and annexed it to his ample
dominion.Years later, when the Spanish conquerors arrived, Captain Jeronimo
Luis de Cabrera founded Villa de Valverde del Valle de Ica (1536) turning
the whole area into an important viti-vinicultural and cotton center.

Quiero señalar lo de "Textiles incomparables", y lo de "momificación"

Un abrazo

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