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Classes re-create Nazca Lines on Arts Quad

by : Liz Kirk , Department of Anthropology

Uthara Suvrathan, a visitng Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Materials Studies, recently led her class (ARKEO/ANTHRO 2140, "Fantastic Frauds and Myths in Archaeology") in a Nazca Lines activity on the Arts Quad.  The Nazca Lines are ancient, gigantic (several are over 300m long) geoglyphs drawn on a desert in Peru.