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International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, 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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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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Geoglyphs and formative-period activity in the middle Chillón Valley, Peru: Ceramic association and null-model tests of route proximity. [PDF]
PLoS ONEGeoglyphs are widespread in arid landscapes, but their chronology and relationship to movement corridors are often difficult to evaluate where direct dating is unavailable. This study examines four geoglyph groups documented through systematic pedestrian
Christian Mesía-Montenegro +1 more
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Impact of pre-Columbian "geoglyph" builders on Amazonian forests. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 Significance Amazonian rainforests once thought to be pristine wildernesses are increasingly known to have been inhabited by large populations before European contact. How and to what extent these societies impacted their landscape through deforestation and forest management is still controversial, particularly in the vast ...
Watling J +9 more
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Estudios Fronterizos, 1995 Using the relationship between art and religion u a take-off point. This article examines two types of earthen art: rock alignments and geoalypht. Differences and similarities in form and content are discussed.
Jay von Werlhof
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AI-accelerated Nazca survey nearly doubles the number of known figurative geoglyphs and sheds light on their purpose [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaMarcus Freitag +2 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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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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Archaeoastronomy at Kanda geoglyph, Macedonia [PDF]
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,
DEBERTOLIS, PAOLO +2 more
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