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Photogrammetric recording, modeling, and visualization of the Nasca lines at Palpa, Peru: an overview [PDF]
, 2009 As part of a long-term project to investigate the cultural history of the Nasca region in southern Peru, the famous Nasca lines, or geoglyphs, have been documented since 1997 in a joint effort by archaeologists and geomatic engineers.
Grün, Armin +2 more
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Lexical phylogenetics of the Tupí-Guaraní family: Language, archaeology, and the problem of chronology. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Ferraz Gerardi F +5 more
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Archaeoastronomy at Kanda geoglyph, Macedonia
Journal of anthropology and archaeology, 2016 This paper extends our previous research of an artificial mound in Kanda (Macedonia) from an archaeoastronomical point of view. In two previous papers, SB Research Group explained its archaeoacoustic research and established the existence of several cavities, likely burial chambers, inside the mound. This mound is essentially a massive earthwork, which,
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Environmental Impact of the Pre-Columbian Geoglyph Builders of Western Amazonia [PDF]
, 2014 A debate that has received much attention in recent years is the nature and scale of pre-Columbian impact in the Amazon lowlands. While the notion that Amazonia is a “pristine wilderness" has long been debunked, several papers have proposed that human ...
Watling, Jennifer Georgina
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Identifying the straight-line geoglyphs of Nasca
The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 2023 Takayuki Osugi +2 more
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, 2010 A network of ancient earthworks covers a large part of the land near the Titicaca Lake. The slopes of hills are criss-crossed with terrace walls and the surfaces of the plains covered with raised fields, indicating that this was once a highly productive agricultural place for the south central Andes. Using the Google Maps satellite imagery, we discover
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Ancient human disturbances may be skewing our understanding of Amazonian forests. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 McMichael CN +3 more
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Geoglyphs of Titicaca as an ancient example of graphic design
, 2010 The paper proposes an ancient landscape design as an example of graphic design for an age and place where no written documents existed. It is created by a network of earthworks, which constitute the remains of an extensive ancient agricultural system. It can be seen by means of the Google satellite imagery on the Peruvian region near the Titicaca Lake,
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Magnetometry on the geoglyphs of Palpa and Nasca (Peru)
, 2007 published
Gorka, Tomasz +2 more
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Predicting pre-Columbian anthropogenic soils in Amazonia. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2014 McMichael CH +8 more
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