Most of the lines are heavily eroded, making them difficult to make out with the naked eye, but the researchers used equipment including a 3-D scanner to sketch out the pattern. Most of the drawings seem to depict llamas, the team said.
“We have found 41 geoglyphs in fiscal 2013 and 2014 combined,” Sakai said. “There are no other areas concentrated with this many examples. Yet with both urban areas and farmland encroaching on the drawings, they are under the threat of being destroyed without being recognized as geoglyphs.”
Story: Nobuyoshi Yonezawa, The Asahi Shimbun | Photo: Nobuyoshi Yonezawa, The Asahi Shimbun
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