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Art Tuesday – Ancient Geoglyphs

A geoglyph is a drawing on the ground, or a large motif, (generally greater than 4 metres) or design produced on the ground, either by arranging clasts (stones, stone fragments, gravel or earth) to create a positive geoglyph (stone arrangement/alignment, petroform, earth mound) or by removing patinated clasts to expose unpatinated ground (negative geoglyph).

Nazca Lines

Nazca Spiral
Atacama giant
Geoglyph on hillside in Mongolia

Geoglifos de Tiliviche

Cerro Pintados - Geoglyphs
Geoglyphs of Chiza

455 foot high portrait of Genghis Khan
Pre-Columbian geometric earthworks (geoglyph)
Pre-Columbian geometric earthworks (geoglyph)