# Silverman 1990: The Early Nasca Pilgrimage Center of Cahuachi and the Nazca Lines: Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives

> Helaine Silverman, 1990. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for the pilgrimage reading.

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# The Early Nasca Pilgrimage Center of Cahuachi and the Nazca Lines: Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives

Helaine Silverman, 1990. _The Lines of Nazca (American Philosophical Society, Memoirs 183)_.

Cahuachi as a pilgrimage centre and the lines as paths of ritual movement across the pampa toward it.

**Nazca Lines** Chapterdoi: **[10.70249/9798893981193-008](https://doi.org/10.70249/9798893981193-008)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Cited for the pilgrimage reading.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[Lines and trapezoids were ceremonial paths, walked in processions, with Cahuachi as the pilgrimage centre.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nazca-lines/answers/ANS0CT6XDT80D6J/lines-and-trapezoids-were-ceremonial-paths-walked-in)

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[Cahuachi ceremonial centre](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nazca-lines/artifacts/ART0CT6XN4M1M60/cahuachi-ceremonial-centre)

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[Helaine Silverman](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nazca-lines/people/FIG0CT6X9DM0E97/helaine-silverman)

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[The Nazca Lines](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nazca-lines)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

```
Silverman, H. (1990). The Early Nasca Pilgrimage Center of Cahuachi and the Nazca Lines: Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives. The Lines of Nazca (American Philosophical Society, Memoirs 183). https://doi.org/10.70249/9798893981193-008
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.70249/9798893981193-008)

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