Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large design or drawing created on the surface of the earth, as by positioning stones or removing earth or surface rock to create lines or spaces that contrast with the surrounding terrain.
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- noun A large-scale
drawing made on theground by scratching or arranging lines of stones etc
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Examples
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However, from what they have already discovered, they believe that in order to have built one Amazonian structure or "geoglyph" of 200 meters in diameter, it would have taken 80 people
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However, from what they have already discovered, they believe that in order to have built one Amazonian structure or "geoglyph" of 200 meters in diameter, it would have taken 80 people
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In India, Rogers repeated his iconic "geoglyph" on an extremely steep hillside located in an arid semi-desert area in Rajasthan.
Impact Lab 2010
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Native American groups sue to stop solar projects By NOAKI SCHWARTZ and JASON DEAREN Associated Press In a Feb. 7, 2011 photo, Alfredo Figueroa, with the La Cuna de Aztlan Sacred Sites Protection Circle, who has filed three federal lawsuits against six fast-tracked solar projects, poses in Blythe, Calif., at the site of a desert geoglyph.
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"If we define a 'geoglyph' as a wide sign on the ground of artificial origin, the stone circles are geoglyphs," Sparavignawrote in her email.
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The uninhabited street plan has become an abstract geoglyph-unintentional land art visible from airplanes-not a thriving community at all.
Land+Living rsswriter@landliving.com 2010
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The 'geoglyph culture' stretches over a region more than 250 kilometres across, and exploits both the floodplains and the uplands … we have so far seen no more than a 10th of it. ''
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It is a geoglyph, a drawing on the ground created by arranging stones or cutting the turf, but this one is spread over the whole country instead of just a field.
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Within the same framework, another human geoglyph is sometimes ascribed to being Kaatar, the Creator god's evil twin brother.
Latest Articles 2009
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The Bouse complex also has a famous human geoglyph, known as the "Fisherman".
Latest Articles 2009
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No actual behemoth was harmed in the process, because the Cerne Abbas Giant is a geoglyph—a large artwork emblazoned into the landscape.
Tiny Snails Help Solve a Giant Mystery Keridwen Cornelius 2021
uselessness commented on the word geoglyph
A drawing on the ground, or a large motif, (generally greater than 4 meters) or design produced on the ground, either by arranging clasts (stones, stone fragments, gravel or earth) to create a positive geoglyph (stone arrangement/alignment, petroform, earth mound) or by removing patinated clasts to expose unpatinated ground (negative geoglyph). See an aerial photo of some Peruvian geoglyphs.
February 8, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word geoglyph
Now new details about these geoglyphs suggest they may have been made for "prayer walking".
—New Scientist, 24 Jan. 2009, on the Nazca Lines
February 17, 2009
reesetee commented on the word geoglyph
"Sculpted from the clay rich soils of Amazonia as perfect circles and squares, these structured earth mounds, or 'geoglyphs,' are located on the east side of the Andes and span a distance of 155 miles." -- "'Astonishing' Ancient Amazon Civilization Discovery Detailed," Discovery News 1/15/10
January 17, 2010
qms commented on the word geoglyph
If shipwrecked on a desert strand
Exploit the things you find on hand.
It takes but a brio jiff
To make up a neoglyph
By spelling out "Help!" in the sand.
May 3, 2017