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| ====== It’s Just a Theory -- April 20, 2013 ====== | ====== It’s Just a Theory ====== |
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| | <wrap lo>Saturday April 20, 2013</wrap> |
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| Today I attended the “Sacred Spaces and Human Sacrifice: The Nasca Lines in their Cultural and Religious Context” lecture at SunWatch in Dayton, Ohio. This is the last of the 2013 AIA/SunWatch “Myths and Mysteries in Archaeology” presentation series. The lecture was very interesting. Christina Conlee (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Texas State University at San Marcos) discussed the archaeological and cultural studies taking place in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca|Nasca region]] and debunked the “space alien” theories that have surrounded the Nasca lines since the 60’s. (The Nasca lines are immense [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoglyph|geoglyphs]], and the “space alien” theories posit that they were built as beacons or messages for alien visitors, with the idea being that they only have context when viewed from the air.) | Today I attended the “Sacred Spaces and Human Sacrifice: The Nasca Lines in their Cultural and Religious Context” lecture at SunWatch in Dayton, Ohio. This is the last of the 2013 AIA/SunWatch “Myths and Mysteries in Archaeology” presentation series. The lecture was very interesting. Christina Conlee (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Texas State University at San Marcos) discussed the archaeological and cultural studies taking place in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca|Nasca region]] and debunked the “space alien” theories that have surrounded the Nasca lines since the 60’s. (The Nasca lines are immense [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoglyph|geoglyphs]], and the “space alien” theories posit that they were built as beacons or messages for alien visitors, with the idea being that they only have context when viewed from the air.) |