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The collection of over 16,000 skulls in the Archaeological museum in Lima makes it possible to study the pathology of these ancient cultures. These Nasca and Paraca skulls were subjected to a traumatic deformation, apparently simply for aesthetic reasons. A long, thin skull was a symbol of the upper class. Many cultures, both before and after the Paracas, even the Incas, carried out brain surgery, using rudimentary surgical instruments made of obsidian. The only anaesthetic used during these trepanning operations were the hallucinatory effects of chicha. Normally, they operated on fractures and blows to the skull received in battle,
and, to a lesser extent, migraines and other pathologies. Battles were frequent and cruel in these ancient civilisations. One proof of this is given to us by the Sechín culture, which developed around 1,500 years BC, in what is now the coastal province of Casma.

Continuing on our journey through the Pre-Inca cultures, we are flying over the mysterious ‘Pampa del Ingenio’. The first person to fly over this land was the American scientist Paul Kosok, in 1939. He discovered enigmatic lines stretching out into the distance, and pointing towards where the sun sets. And there were not just lines, but also enormous drawings which could only be seen from the air, and at a considerable height.The German mathematician María Reiche continued the investigations. In effect, many of them coincided with solar solstices and the exact place where the moon rises. But, according to this investigator, these lines across the pampas were made during the first millenium of our era, by the Nasca and Paraca peoples. “We have before us one of the most important tasks in the study of our history, which will help us understood the peoples of the past, and their way of thinking.”

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