Silverman use the comparison and ethnographic methods to reinterpret the findings of Cahuachi, a major Nazca site on the shore of the Nazca River. Based on the pilgrimage for the Virgin of Yauca made each year at Ica, the author suggests that Cahuachi was a ceremonial center and the elite to diffuse Nazca ideology used the public performances. The spaces between the mounds were plazas where public ceremonies were hold and the scarcity of the remains found may be explain by a sweeping ritual observed at Ica and in ethnographic records. Depressions of the ground and postholes were found at the main plaza and they were hearths and the remains of temporary structures, as the one of Ica. Vessel remains, as a fine polychrome goblet, were also found
