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25 Oct 2014, 9:48 pm

The Peruvians who went out in the desert and made geoglyphs thousands of years ago that are still here today. Anyone study their culture?



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25 Oct 2014, 9:57 pm

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
The Peruvians who went out in the desert and made geoglyphs thousands of years ago that are still here today. Anyone study their culture?


I remember my first anthropology professor spent time in Peru studying the people there, but her and I never discussed Paracas people. As far as I can tell she only studied modern Peruvian culture. Did the Paracas people also worship the mountains?


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25 Oct 2014, 10:59 pm

Lukecash12 wrote:
ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
The Peruvians who went out in the desert and made geoglyphs thousands of years ago that are still here today. Anyone study their culture?


I remember my first anthropology professor spent time in Peru studying the people there, but her and I never discussed Paracas people. As far as I can tell she only studied modern Peruvian culture. Did the Paracas people also worship the mountains?


Not sure if they worshiped mountains but they sure did like weaving tapestries and blankets.



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25 Oct 2014, 11:32 pm

didn't they also practice skull deformation/modification?


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26 Oct 2014, 2:03 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:
didn't they also practice skull deformation/modification?


They did skull lengthening but so did many other cultures.



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26 Oct 2014, 4:35 am

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
didn't they also practice skull deformation/modification?


They did skull lengthening but so did many other cultures.


phrenologists? that some creepy stuff



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26 Oct 2014, 5:15 am

khaoz wrote:
ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
didn't they also practice skull deformation/modification?


They did skull lengthening but so did many other cultures.


phrenologists? that some creepy stuff


"Phrenology" is something else.

Phrenology is the Victorian era psuedoscience of guessing your character, and personality, by measuring bumps on your head- the bumps supposedly caused by the dimensions of parts of your brain which determined your aptitudes, and so forth. "This bump here means you're good in music". On a par with astrology. But it has nothing to do with actual "skull deformation" that some cultures around the globe were into.



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26 Oct 2014, 6:56 am

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Lukecash12 wrote:
ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
The Peruvians who went out in the desert and made geoglyphs thousands of years ago that are still here today. Anyone study their culture?


I remember my first anthropology professor spent time in Peru studying the people there, but her and I never discussed Paracas people. As far as I can tell she only studied modern Peruvian culture. Did the Paracas people also worship the mountains?


Not sure if they worshiped mountains but they sure did like weaving tapestries and blankets.


Do they live in Caracas, and do they play maracas?