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Hypotheses about geoglyphs at Nasca, Peru: new discoveries [PDF]
Geoinformatics FCE CTU, 2016 The known hypotheses about the reasons why the geoglyphs in the Nasca and Palpa region of Peru were created are many: roads/paths, rituals/ceremonials, use of hallucinogens, astronomical meaning, influence of extraterrestrials, underground water… and so ...
Jaroslav Klokočník +3 more
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Predicting the geographic distribution of ancient Amazonian archaeological sites with machine learning [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Amazonia has as least two major centers of ancient human social complexity, but the full geographic extents of these centers remain uncertain. Across the southern rim of Amazonia, over 1,000 earthwork sites comprised of fortified settlements, mound ...
Robert S. Walker +5 more
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The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2013 The Czech Technical University in Prague in the cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences in Dresden (Germany) work on the Nasca Project. The cooperation started in 2004 and much work has been done since then. All work is connected with Nasca
K. Hanzalová, K. Pavelka
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Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for localized, short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 Watling J +9 more
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Maria Reiche's line to archaeoastronomy [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013 Maria Reiche was a German mathematician and archaeologist that, from 1940, devoted her life to the study of the Nazca Lines, the most famous Peruvian geoglyphs, gaining recognition and preservation of them. Created by removing the upper most layer of the
Sparavigna, A.C.
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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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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 970-990, August 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Uncertainty remains over local‐scale responses of ecotonal Amazonian forests to middle Holocene drying due to the scarcity, and coarse spatial resolution, of lacustrine pollen records. This paper examines the palaeoecological potential of soil phytoliths, stable carbon isotopes and charcoal for capturing local‐scale ecotonal responses of ...
James Hill +5 more
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Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 881-892, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Aim Palms are iconic and dominant elements of neotropical forests. In the Amazon region, palms have been used and managed by humans for food, material, medicine and other purposes for millennia. It is, however, debated to what extent the structure of modern palm communities reflects long‐term human modification.
Gabriela Zuquim +4 more
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Ritual complexes ("geoglifs") of the Turgay Deflection (preliminary message) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2018 Turgay deflection, the territory is contoured from the west by the spurs of the South Ural Mountains, from the east by the Kazakh Uplands and the spurs of the Ulutau Mountains, merges with the West Siberian Lowland in the north, and goes to the Shalkar ...
Logvin, A.V. +3 more
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Before God: Reconstructing Ritual in the Desert in Proto-Historic Times
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021 Archaeological remains are a trove of potential data which, together with the study of ritual, enable reconstruction and evaluation of social and religious structures and complexity.
Davida Eisenberg-Degen +2 more
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