Stephanie Garcia, writing in the Garcias2Chile blog, took a trip this month to Chile's Painted Hills and came back with some great photos of the ancient geoglyphs in the Atacama Desert.
The Atacama Giant: Geoglyph of Cerro Unita, Pozo Almonte, Chile. Photo by Luis Briones (c) 2006
Geoglyphs are what archaeologists call art carved or painted or otherwise drawn into the landscape. The geoglyphs in the Atacama desert of Chile are not the most famous in the world--that would probably be the Nazca lines--but they are among the most numerous, as more than 5,000 of them have been recorded over the past 30 years. Stephanie's images set the glyphs into the landscape, as my one image of the Giant does not. Thanks Stephanie!
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