Nazcaadj.n.
/ˈnazkə/, /ˈnaskə/, U.S. /ˈnɑskə/ A. adj.
Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology. Characteristic of an Early Intermediate period culture of the southern coast of present-day Peru which flourished from the 1st century a.d. until c750; (spec. of its pottery) characterized by intricate, multicoloured painted designs and early modelling techniques.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific South American culture
Tiahuanaco1892
Nazca1912
Nazcan1918
Tiahuanacoid1957
1912 T. A. Joyce S. Amer. Archaeol. xx. 181 The closest parallel by far to the Nasca style is constituted by the Chavin monolith.
1926 Amer. Anthropologist 28 340 Uhle's opinions as to the stylistic relationships of the Proto-Lima to the Nazca and the Tiahuanaco–Epigonal styles are..not affected by the stratification.
1957 Encycl. Brit. II. 259/2 The Classic Stage also saw a climax in the arts as evidenced by the Mochica portrait pottery, Nazca ceramics and textiles and Tiahuanaco stone carving.
1990 A. Sinclair Need to Give xi. 152 The free trade in..Mayan stelae and Nazca pottery, of Khmer statues and Polynesian wood-carving transferred the arts of the South and the East to the North and the West.
B. n.
Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology. The Nazca culture; the period in which that culture flourished.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > cultures of specific peoples or nations
Indianism1672
Gaeldom1860
zadruga1887
Nazca1917
Amratian1928
Ibero-Maurusian1934
Oranian1934
Levantinism1949
1917 P. A. Means Surv. Anc. Peruvian Art 393 (table) 393 Chimu and Nasca... Revival of some of the features of Proto-Chimu and Proto-Nasca.
1935 Sci. Monthly Oct. 312/2 Early Chimú..and Early Nazca..are both claimed..to be the earliest known Peruvian period.
1996 K. J. Schreiber in B. M. Fagan Oxf. Compan. Archaeol. 486/2 A series of changes in art style began during this Transitional Period, resulting in the ‘proliferous’ styles of Late Nasca.
Compounds
Nazca lines n. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology a group of large-scale figures, lines, and abstract patterns of pre-Incan origin, scored into the soil of arid regions north of Nazca in southern Peru.
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1967 L. Deuel Conquistadors without Swords vi. 77 She has been able to prove conclusively that several Nazca lines coincide in their direction with the solstices.
1973 Current Anthropol. 14 446/1 Perpendicular directional markings cut into a rock..appear to align with winter-solstice sunrise, a hypothesis which agrees with that of Smiley..with regard to the Nasca lines.
1992 Prediction May 56/1 Only recognisable as geometric designs and figures of birds and animals from the air, these mammoth drawings became known as The Nazca Lines.
2000 Bath Chron. (Electronic ed.) 11 Mar. The book introduces convincing explanations for some of the most celebrated earth mysteries, such as..the secret of the Nazca lines.
Nazca plate n. Geology an oceanic lithospheric plate in the south-eastern Pacific, which is subducting under the South American continental plate along the line of the Peru–Chile trench.
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1970 Earthquake Notes 41 18 (title) Focal mechanism of a shock at the center of Nasca Plate.
1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 42 (caption) As the Nazca plate is subducted, mountain-building, earthquakes and volcanic activity occur.
1988 J. McPhee in Control of Nature (1989) 156 They slide under one another, they slide past one another, they diverge—like the Eurasian, Persian.., Cocos, Nazca, and Juan de Fuca plates.
1999 Maclean's 8 Feb. 40 A massive piece of the earth's crust known as the Nazca plate is pushing eastward from the Pacific Ocean underneath the Andes.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1912