{"id":336487,"date":"2020-03-18T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=336487"},"modified":"2020-03-18T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T18:02:06","slug":"new-glyphs-found-in-the-peruvian-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/new-glyphs-found-in-the-peruvian-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"New glyphs found in the Peruvian desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists from Japan have identified 143 new drawings\u2014or geoglyphs\u2014of animals, plants, and people in the Nazca desert, near the coast of Peru. Field work and three-dimensional image analysis by a team led by Masato Sakai, professor of cultural anthropology at Yamagata University in Japan, led to the discovery of 142 new geoglyphs. A four-meter-high, two-meter-wide image of a humanoid was identified using artificial intelligence developed by IBM, which is capable of processing a huge number of high-resolution aerial images. Recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994, the so-called <em>Lines and Geoglyphs of Nazca and Pampas de Jumana<\/em> are spread over an area of approximately 450 square kilometers, depicting imaginary beings, animals, and hundreds of other large geometric figures\u2014one of them, 135 meters long, depicts a monkey. Estimated at between 2,500 and 2,200 years old, they are thought to have been used in rituals by pre-Inca peoples. As well as studying the region since 2004, Sakai&#8217;s team has endeavored to preserve the archaeological site, which is under threat due to urban and agricultural expansion. Last year, a truck on the Pan-American Highway veered off the road and left tire tracks on three geoglyphs. In 2009, heavy rains flowing off the highway damaged three fingers of a hand-shaped glyph (<em>Yamagata News<\/em>, November 15; <em>Smithsonian.com<\/em>, November 21).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_336488\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/008-011_Notas_287-3-1140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-336488 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/008-011_Notas_287-3-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/008-011_Notas_287-3-1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/008-011_Notas_287-3-1140-250x175.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/008-011_Notas_287-3-1140-700x491.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/008-011_Notas_287-3-1140-120x84.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Dean Mouhtaropoulos \/ Getty Details\u2002Yamagata University and IBM<\/span><\/a> A humanoid image was identified by artificial intelligence<span class=\"media-credits\">Dean Mouhtaropoulos \/ Getty Details\u2002Yamagata University and IBM<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Archaeologists from Japan have identified 143 new drawings\u2014or geoglyphs\u2014of animals, plants, and people in the Nazca desert, near the coast of Peru","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":336492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[202,240,241],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-336487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-archaeology","tag-geology","tag-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336496,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336487\/revisions\/336496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336487"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=336487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}