Johan Reinhard
Johan Reinhard is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society; a senior research fellow at The Mountain Institute, West Virginia; a visiting professor at Catholic University, Salta, Argentina; and an honorary professor at Catholic University, Arequipa, Peru.
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Interpreting the Nazca Lines
Johan Reinhard
Description: The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes
The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes
On the arid coastal plain of southern Peru arose a culture that was to become one of the most famous in the prehistory of that country. Between roughly 200 BC and AD 600, the people inhabiting the Nazca River system made textiles and ceramics that were of the highest technical and artistic quality. Thanks to the desert climate, many of these objects were well preserved and can be seen in museums much as they appeared to the people who made them nearly two thousand years ago. Among the finest …
Author
Richard F. Townsend (Editor)
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Copyright© 1992 The Art Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.291-301
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00118.028
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14453
Chapter subject tags:Nazca Lines Site (Peru)Nazca cosmologyNazca potteryIndigenous peoples--South America--PeruArt, Ancient AmericanPottery, Ancient AmericanTextile fabrics, Ancient American