AI-accelerated Nazca survey nearly doubles the number of known figurative geoglyphs and sheds light on their purpose. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AIt took nearly a century to discover a total of 430 figurative Nazca geoglyphs, which offer significant insights into the ancient cultures at the Nazca Pampa.
Sakai M +6 more
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Geography of ancient geometric earthworks and their builders in southwestern Amazonia [PDF]
Acta AmazonicaGeometric earthworks are evidence of ancient human activity in western Brazilian Amazonia. We used a review of existing and new data to map earthworks across 27,569 km2 of deforested areas in southwestern Amazonia using satellite imagery.
Risto KALLIOLA +4 more
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The geoglyphs of Titicaca [PDF]
, 2010 The paper describes the detection of geoglyphs near Titicaca Lake using image processing of satellite ...
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Further evidence for localized, short-term anthropogenic forest alterations across pre-Columbian Amazonia. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 Piperno DR, McMichael C, Bush MB.
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A 2,300-year-old architectural and astronomical complex in the Chincha Valley, Peru. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014 Stanish C +3 more
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Context Matters: GIS-Based Spatial Analysis of the Nasca Geoglyphs of Palpa [PDF]
, 2009 In this chapter we report on the GIS-based analysis of the Nasca geoglyphs of Palpa, Peru, undertaken in the course of the Nasca–Palpa Archaeological Project. We focus here on the analysis of spatial relationships between the geoglyphs and the surrounding landscape in terms of visibility and orientation.
K. Lambers, M. Sauerbier
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A Fresh View on the Nasca Lines: Investigating Geoglyph Visibility in Palpa (Ica, Peru) [PDF]
, 2007 J. Clark
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Remote Sensing Letters, 2022 The detection of pre-Colombian geoglyphs, geometric structures outlined by trenches or walls, from airborne LiDAR data is usually made by visual observation of the variation in elevation and commonly using additional hillshading.
F. Wagner +6 more
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Geological observations on archeoastronomical objects of the ridge Sunduki and mount Tarping (Khakasia) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2018 In autumn of 2016, the author participated in the Second Russian seminar on the field of archeoastronomy, which took place in the tract of the Sunduki (Khakasia) and was dedicated to the memory of the famous scientist-archaeologist and orientalist V.
Negoda, I.V.
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Past human‐induced ecological legacies as a driver of modern Amazonian resilience
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 5, Page 1415-1429, October 2023., 2023 Abstract People have modified landscapes throughout the Holocene (the last c. 11,700 years) by modifying soils, burning forests, cultivating and domesticating plants, and directly and indirectly enriched and depleted plant abundances. These activities also took place in Amazonia, which is the largest contiguous piece of rainforest in the world, and for
Crystal N. H. McMichael +3 more
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