Maria Reiche's Line to Archaeoastronomy [PDF]
, 2012 Maria Reiche devoted her life to the study of the Nazca Lines, the most famous Peruvian geoglyphs. In fact, she was an archaeoastronomer that proposed for the Lines some interesting astronomical interpretations.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia [PDF]
, 2019 The long term response of ancient societies to climate change has been a matter of global debate. Until recently, the lack of integrative studies between archaeological, palaeoecological, and palaeoclimatological data had prevented an evaluation of the ...
Alves, Daiana T. +16 more
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Cartographic Analysis of Earth-Sun Relationships in Ancient Amazonia [PDF]
, 2023 The alignments of ancient man-made earthworks across the Amazon Basin, known as geoglyphs, have recently been discovered to predate early societal dates.
Critser, Jackson Bennett
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Ornamental art and symbolism: activators of historical regeneration for Kazakhstan's landscape architecture [PDF]
, 2017 The use of symbolism in contemporary architecture is increasingly gaining momentum, especially so in the Eastern countries currently undergoing rapid economic development.
Namazbay, Ardasher +4 more
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Tequinho Geoglyph Site and Early Polychrome Horizon 300 BC - AD 300/500 in the Brazilian State of Acre [PDF]
, 2021 In Amazonian archaeological discussion the concept of tradition presupposes a keen connection between pottery styles and specific language groups. Multicultural traditions or transcultural adaptions are often pushed aside.
Pärssinen, Martti
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Variations of Images to Increase Their Visibility [PDF]
, 2012 The calculus of variations applied to the image processing requires some numerical models able to perform the variations of images and to extremize an appropriate actions.
SPARAVIGNA, Amelia Carolina
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Diversity of Pre-colonial Earthworks in the Brazilian State of Acre, Southwestern Amazonia [PDF]
, 2018 Amazonian earthworks, which are an important testimony to ancient anthropogenic landscape modifications, have a significant variety of structures and sizes, and are found in different geographical and ecological locations that indicate separate time ...
Pärssinen, Martti +2 more
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Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon [PDF]
, 2015 The nature and extent of pre-Columbian (pre-1492 AD) human impact in Amazonia is a contentious issue. The Bolivian Amazon has yielded some of the most impressive evidence for large and complex pre-Columbian societies in the Amazon basin, yet there ...
Alcina Franch J +31 more
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Indigenous and colonial influences on Amazonian forests
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 4, Page 803-823, July 2024.Global climate models that incorporate carbon sources and sinks usually consider that forest uptake of carbon is in a state of equilibrium. Both historical and paleoecological records suggest that this is commonly not the case for Amazonia. Here, the impacts of colonial practices on Amazonian Indigenous peoples and forests are reviewed.
Majoi N. Nascimento +2 more
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Ecosystem turnover in palaeoecological records: the sensitivity of pollen and phytolith proxies to detecting vegetation change in southwestern Amazonia [PDF]
, 2019 Identification of ecosystem turnover in the palaeo-vegetation record is important for understanding the resilience of ecosystems to past environmental change.
Bronwen Whitney +6 more
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