In our previous thread you had mentioned that Pedro Cieza de Leon said that the people at Nasca either denied they did, or could not say who had, built the lines .... I did search through some of my books and found this... in this chapter they are discussing the filtration canels at Nasca... I'm just going to type the important bit...

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In contrast, Schreiber and Lancho Rajas (1995) argue that there is little documentary evidence for the attribution of filtration galleries to the Spanish. They indicate that Barnes and Fleming fail to mention that Cieza de Leon did not personally travel on the south coast of Peru, was never in Nazca, and could not have had the opportunity to observe the filtration galleries.

Page 48
The Nasca
by Helaine Silverman and Donald A. Proulx
Emphasis mine

Can you please firm up your reference for this so I can check it out? At best it would seem Cieza de Leon had second hand information.




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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/27/2005 04:52PM by Katherine Reece.