The Nasca Culture |
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It was Max Uhle who started the researches about this culture, writing his first memorandum document in 1906, it was based on 25 tombs (nasca type), that were found in Ocucaje in 1901. Nasca left a simple of its great develop through the famous Nasca Lines, Citadel Cahuachi, the fine polychrome ceramic and the aqueducts. The nasca civilization adored the God Kon (creator of the world) and other minor divinities like the deity of the wind and water. The decadence happens by the year 600 A.C. .It is believed that the desert quickly expanded through Nasca and that the most important center of Nasca(Cahuachi)lost its religiosity. Politic and Social OrganizationNasca was divided in valleys with establishments in the extremes that had its own authority which was the minister. The elite lived in pyramidal buildings which rooms were made of adobe and the walls were covered with a layer of plaster or lime in order to fill the cracks. The population lived in the villages or in the periphery of the city ,the homes were built putting trunks of carob tree that defined the walls. The social organization of the Nasca had central authorities which were mainly ministers who had the capacity of organize the community work and lead the complex ceremonial activities. They had many handcraft men for their service, among them we can mention ceramists, astrologists, musicians, soldiers ,textile people .They lived in small cities and ceremonial centers like the complex of Cahuachi . Farmers and fishermen were in the base of the society. They lived in diverse points of the territory. The farmers had almost the totality of the valleys in order to develop the agriculture with more space and fertile land. AgricultureNascas’s economy was base in the agriculture. The place where the water came from , is located near Nasca taking the water of the subsoil bringing it to the city. The main cultures were : corn, kidney bean, pumpkin, yucca, peanut, chili pepper, guava, lucuma,pacae,pallar bean, and cotton, with it they developed their textiles and clothing. Commerce
They exchange products with different cultures, building a red of commerce among Nasca, Warpa and others. With the Warpas, they exchanged products from the Andes like potatoes and wool, feathers from the jungle (for their fabric) , were exchanged for fish, cotton, and perhaps their ceramic. TechnologyTechnology was developed mainly in the agricultural area since Nasca is a place where there is almost no rain, they build aqueducts, channels and wells supplying the land and reservoirs with water. |