C Tedder Wrote:
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> Is this true?

According to Woodman it is .... but I had no way to prove or disprove the story. Considering how he stretched other evidence I take it with a grain of salt. I do wonder why if this technology had been handed to the Portuguese on a silver platter (so to speak) why they didn't use it? And don't forget I searched the anthropological databases looking for information on native use of balloons and found nothing.

Marie Reiche had been working on efforts to protect the lines long before the balloon flight. Matter of fact while she was alive people had to get her permission to do any research on the lines and researchers who found themselves on her "bad side" often heard from the Peruvian government.

More inspiration to protect the lines has been provided by archaeologists however since they need the lines to stay in as pristine as a condition as possible to study them. There is still today a problem with protection of the lines. Even with the tourists bringing money to the area the mayor of the modern town of Nasca actually ordered garbage to be dumped in the archaeological zone of the lines to protest that the Peruvian government had not provided space for the town to dispose of its trash.

Kat

Ma'at Moderator

Founder and Director of The Hall of Ma'at

Contributing author to Archaeological Fantasies:
How pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past and misleads the public
"If you panic, you're lost" -- W. T. 'Watertight' Southard



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2005 02:26PM by Katherine Reece.