Nazca, Outside the Lines - Ep 144

On this sponsored episode, Anna and Amber talk about the Nazca culture of coastal Peru. There's SO much more to talk about than the famous Nazca Lines. There's gorgeous ceramics, ingenious irrigation, trophy heads, cactus tripping, and much more!

Links

• The Puquios of Nasca (Latin American Antiquity)

• Cahuachi: New Evidence for an Early Nasca Ceremonial Role (Current Anthropology, via ResearchGate)

• Ritual Uses of Trophy Heads in Ancient Nasca Society (Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru,)

• Traditional Medicinal Plant Use in Northern Peru: Tracking Two Thousand Years of Healing Culture (Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)

• Nasca Ceramics: Ancient Art from Peru’s South Coast (Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology)

• Nazca Pottery (World History Encyclopedia)

• Nasca Ceramic Iconography: An Overview (The Studio Potter)

• 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Line Featuring Lounging Cat Found in Peru (Smithsonian)

• 2,000-Year-Old Cat Etching Found at Nazca Lines Site in Peru (New York Times)

• Peru’s Nazca Line etchings depict bird species not native to the area (PBS)

• Identifying the bird figures of the Nasca pampas: An ornithological perspective (Journal of Archaeological Science)

• The Racism Behind Alien Mummy Hoaxes (The Atlantic)

• Ancient Nazca people of Peru created own demise (Seattle Times)

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Chalk it Up to Science - Ep 102

This week, on a short but fun episode, Anna and Amber investigate some of the massive figures cut into the chalk landscape of the Southern UK. Who made them? How old are they? Why are there so many horses?

Links

• Cerne Abbas Giant is NOT prehistoric and may have been created just a few hundred years ago before becoming a propaganda tool for William of Orange, snail shells reveal (Daily Mail)

• England’s 7 most intriguing chalk figures and the stories behind them (Wanderlust)

• Chalk Hill Figures (Historic UK)

• Southern England Chalk Formation (Wikipedia)

• An Introduction to Prehistoric England (Before 43 BC) (English Heritage)

• Bronze Age discovery reveals surprising extent of Britain’s trade with Europe 3,600 years ago (The Conversation)

• Bronze Age Britain (BBC)

• Footprints, Size 10, From Britain’s Bronze Age (The New Yorker)

• The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe (Nature)

• Boom and bust in Bronze Age Britain: major copper production from the Great Orme mine and European trade, c. 1600–1400 BC (Antiquity)

• Against All Odds, England’s Massive Chalk Horse Has Survived 3,000 Years (Smithsonian)

• England’s Enormous Chalk Figures (Atlas Obscura via Google Earth)

• Britain's Spectacular (and Sometimes Mysterious) Hill Figures (Gizmodo UK)

• Why Is the Kiwi’s Egg So Big? (Audubon)

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