Chloe DeHerrera

     The Nasca Geoglyphs are l ocated in the desert on the coast of Peru.  T hey are the largest drawings in the world, which is very impressive. They referred as Nasca lines. T heir designs formed on the earth.  T hey can be constructed from strong natural material for example stone that is a large scale.  T he Hummingbird measures just over 300 feet in length this is the most famous nasca geoglyphs.  T here are other geoglyphs such as mammals’, birds, and insects. They are a monkey, killer whale, spider and a Condor. There are plants and geometric shapes that have been recorded also abstract patterns and intersecting lines known as pampa. This approximately covers 200 square miles near the foothills of the Andres mountains.  Humming Bird      I n my last blog post I did the Paracas textiles and they were found in the exact same area, which is also very interesting. The zoomorphic geoglyphs are the oldest and most esteemed....

     The Paracas Textiles w ere found in necropolis in Peru in the 1920s.   T he necropolis held 420 bodies that had been mummified and wrapped in embroidered textiles of the Paracas culture in 200 to 300 BCE. The cloth as well as the dimensional border were created using different techniques both with perfect reverse ability.  The textile contains a vast amount of information about the people who lived in ancient Peru it has a great age and delicacy, the colors are brilliant, and it has lots of tiny details amazingly intact. Textile            E xcept for three border figures these figures are duplicated on the back it would be as if you were flipping the image in a mirror. They appear in back view on one side of the cloth therefore making sure there is a front and back to the textile.  I t is a design of 32 geometric faces, and it's created by warp wrapping this is a technique with colored fleece and is wound a...

       Lydenburg Heads were c reated 500 A.D.    They were created and found in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa.  They are currently in Iziko South Africa Museum, Cape Town.  They were hollow heads awarded to President Mbeki.  The 7 heads were founded by Karl von Bezing.     The group of seven earthenware heads were named after the site where they were discovered in east Transvaal of South Africa. R adiocarbon dating of charcoal samples from excavation of this site has established that the heads were buried there around 500 A.D. This makes them the oldest Iron Age African artworks from below the equator. T he reconstructed heads are not identical at all.  2 largest heads      T hey also share a number of characteristics such as, s carification (scars) on the forehead, the temples, and between the eyes. T he modeled strips of clay form the thinly open over eyes,    also showing detail on the mou...

The Great Enclosure     The Great Zimbabwe Enclosure was completed approximately 1450. I t was a wall structure punctuated with turrets and monoliths to form the earlier Hill Ruin. Turrets were a small tower on top of a larger tower. A monolith was a single piece of stone standing upright and usually large, it served as a  monument  or a pillar. T here is a massive outer wall that is 32 feet high. On the  inside the enclosure is smaller, the walls are parallel to the exterior wall creating a tight passageway leading to large towers.  There are three sections the first is the Hill complex, the second is the Great Enclosure which is obviously the most exciting, and the last is the Valley ruins.   Great Enclosure Map        Starting with the first section the Hill complex, it is a structural ruins that sits at the top of the steepest Hill of the site. It is a religious center and the oldest part of great Zimbabwe it was built around 90...

    Jomon    means chord pattern in  Japanese. T his represents a technique of decorating jomon period pottery. The    women of the Jomon period make the pots by hand. Th ey would build vessels from the bottom from wet coils of wet clay, then mix other materials such as Mica and crushed shells to make the pots. M ica is a mineral dust, used to make cement, makeup, wallpaper,  and  so much more. N ext they smooth out the inside and outside of the pots then decorated with geometric patterns.   The designs were made by pressing cord on the soft surface of the clay. T hey were left out to dry before being put into the fire at a low temperature just reaching the 900 degrees Celsius in an outdoor fire pit. T hese represented a more complex decoration and design of geometric patterns. They were made with designs  as well as colored with natural pigments. T hese are remarkable skills in aesthetic sense of the people who produced them. I t a...

Terracotta Warriors First Emperor:      Qin Shihuang was 13 years old when he became the leader of Xian, China. Although, he conquered a lot in life, he was quite fascinated with death, so he wanted to conquer death as well. He  successfully achieve this purpose by building a tomb.  This idea eventually became a vast underground guarded city. It was g uarded by warriors infantryman, horses, chariots, with armor and weaponry.  The underground army is guarding the Fist Emperor’s burial complex, to  protect him from anything in the after life. This was a v ery remarkable discovery made in 1974.  There were bronze ritual vessels found as well as jade jewelry, and a wealth of gold and silver ornaments.   The construction and production of the complex and figures reveal a theme that shows the world view and influence of the emperor. Innovation:      The first emperor was know for his innovations.  They c...