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Conclusion
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In conclusion, I wish to thank all those who had patience to read this article to the end. I appreciate this because I understand that geoglyphs as irrigation systems are not as exciting as some message sent into the future.
The article turned out to be long, because I wanted to make it understandable and compelling for a wide range of readers. Although, considering the reason expressed above, I should not count on massive interest.
In the process of writing I several times had a feeling that I am trying to break into open gates, that people who saw lots of life-size geoglyphs themselves should understand that they were the result of quite routine activities of people. In this vein, I was puzzled by the persistence of Maria Reiche who underwent many hardships in the course of her research, but devoted her whole life to this study. Why did she do so? Was it worshipping the mystery, which she was not able to solve, or her individuality that was not inclined to shrink back before obstacles? I do not know.
Unfortunately, I could not discuss geoglyphs with the local peasants. On my way I mostly met biased people. However, I am sure that, unlike intellectuals, some of the ordinary people who work on the land have a feeling what these ancient lines, wedges, and ribbons are. This is just like ordinary people in Malta who felt that the ruts were not a museum item, and that there would be no great loss for anyone if a house is built on them.
Yes, they certainly do not understand the details, they do not know how the geoglyphs function, but they could not but notice that so many features of their structure and arrangement indicate a direct relationship with water. Of all people they know the price of it. And there is one step from this knowledge to the perception of the geoglyphs as something familiar to them.
Of course, at the end of this work, in which actual field work took a little over a week and did not require any fundamental research, I need to tell that eveything written here is only a hypothesis that needs to be thoroughly checked. Nevertheless, I have inner confidence that the main conclusion about geoglyphs being irrigation systems will not be subjected to revision even in the process of more serious research.
Unfortunately, I do not think that it will be done in the foreseeable future because such truth that eliminates the present intriguing state of the most famous attraction of Peru is hardly needed to anyone.
At the end of this paper I want to remind my readers that in the process of uncovering the mysteries of Nazca I used the same principles and approaches that were applied in Malta and in Brittany. This confirms the correctness of the assumptions about the recent restructuring of the relief and unusual for geologists speed with which this process was taking place.
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