While researching my latest novel, I uncovered some amazing information on the Nazca lines. Using a computerized model, I discovered mathematical parallels that can explain the function of the lines, and explain why they were built. Maria Reiche, the German mathemetician (or, the Queen of the Nazca Lines), that devoted her life to blocking all further study, purportedly for their protection, would be shocked at the results.
They also correspond to the Ica Stones, a collection of etched Andesite stones found near Ica, Peru, and are inexhorably linked to the lines, and also act as a sort of encyclopedia that would survive the thousands of years when they were buried. Andesite is a very hard stone, so just carving the images is not viable.
Interesting questions to ponder....

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So what is it.....are you going to show us? Links?

I'm very hesitant to reveal what I have learned in a public forum, but it does have do do with the epicentres and lengths of lines.
It will be explained in the book, due for publication in a year or so, with the working title of The Pandora Papyrus. I say working title, as so many things change, but my editor likes it, and I think it pertains to the books subject matter. My nom de plume is D.N. Fitzgerald, and yes, F.Scott was my great Uncle, on my Grandfather's side. Sorry, I get asked that a lot....
Are you familiar with the Ica stones? Your browser should take you to a few links...
Hidden archeology is a very big subject. The historical timeline fits into the established "view", but there is so much evidence that points to a much older, more complex development.
For example, the world's museums constantly hide things that they do not understand, or would upset the reams of literature written on our early past.
The British Museum has a basement full of amazing objects. Notably, they have boxes of wooden "didoes" uncovered during their Egyptian digs. The Victorian culture that found them was not ready to understand their purpose, as the early Egyptians were a sexually open society.
Another fact, is when the leading German Forensic Pathologist did an autopsy on several mummies, she found traces of Cocaine and Tobacco...indigenous to South America. The first, and lamest explanation was that early archeologists smoked pipes, and the ashes they might have dropped would explain the tobacco. How it got in the lungs was never mentioned. Anyway, look up Ica Stones in your browser, and read some of the links. It makes you wonder.....

A "Spooky archeology thread" ! Great. I'm going to love that one.
So, Opiette, could you tell us more about your next novel ? And about your previous ones (unfortunately i could not find any on Amazon)
BTW i'm a great fan of your great uncle.

Ya, it's going to be a real eye opener, according to my research.
I had a really bad accident in '95, and have been doing short stories and poems since then...I was stabbed 6 times, and had 2 additional operations to fix my innards...
The novel "Study in Secrets" has been...let's say, out of print?
About the only thing on line can be found at www.poetry.com...just type in my name, Danae Fitzgerald, and you will be taken to some poems....remember, the web expanded in '95 to what it is today. did you look at the Ica stones?

Yes, I looked at the Ica stones. I had already read about them. IMO it's a hoax. But I'm ready to change my mind if provided enough evidence !

yes, it's much easier to dismiss them as a hoax, but there is a lot of evidence proving they aren't....
Andesite, the stone that is carved, is almost as hard as a diamond...the math was done on how many days one person would take to carve the estimated 23,000 stones that we know of, and they also contain images that a S.A. peasant farmer would have absolutely no knowledge of.

I've also been corresponding with Dr. Javier Cabrera, and have some evidence as to their authenticity.

...just image if they are real?

Well, Ok. I'm ready to read your evidence.
But what about the fact that the guy who sold them to Mr Cabrera later admitted he forged them ?

Cabrera says there was too much attention, and after the BBC did a documentary on the subject, he just wanted to be left alone.
The oxidation in the carved portion on some of the more elaborate stones was carbon dated and found to be very old.

Like any such thing, there are always dissenters and disbelievers.
My position is if they are real, wow. If they are a hoax, he must have had his whole village carving them, and, if so, how did they know how to carve certain things...e.g. early maps, anatomically correct animals they had never seen, along with many other questions.
I'm writing a fictional novel; therefore, it really doesn't matter whether they are authentic or fraudulant, as my whole book has been created in my mind. It would be incredible if they were real, but their existence would turn early paleontology upside down.

Sometimes a dream provides more motivation than our often mundane reality (as long as you know the difference...). I suppose that's why we have people walking around with tinfoil on their heads, and signs that shout "take me!"

I agree that it's a fascinating thema for a novel.
But there is no real suspense : stone showing men and dinosaurs together can only be fake. There is way enough evidence that dinosaurs disappeared long before men appeared. It's like a picture showing Washington in a jumbo Jet : if you see such a painting, whatever story is behind and even if it looks authentic, I won't say "this may be the evidence that mankind invented airplanes long before the "official"history tells us". I immediately know it's a hoax.

Dinosaurs disappeared 65 millions years ago. Period. That's enough for me to prove it'a a hoax.

Now maybe some stones are really old, but not those with dinos.

Well, everything sure looks exciting when you combine them with Egyptian cartouches and the antiquities department, German phamaceutical companies, a religious fanatic group, and a Scottish professor...not to mention the protagonists who are in the middle of all this...
of course, it's all fiction, but I think it'll make a good read.

When will your book be available ?