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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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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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The Uffington White Horse geoglyph as sun-horse [PDF]
Antiquity, 2017 The Uffington White Horse is a unique later prehistoric geoglyph worked onto the chalk hillside of the Berkshire Downs in southern England. This large figure has seen little new interpretation since the early twentieth century. Unable to explain the form
Pollard, Joshua
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Geoglyphs of Titicaca as an ancient example of graphic design [PDF]
, 2010 arXiv, Cornell Univeristy ...
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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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 ...
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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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 interfluvial ...
Watling J +9 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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Astronomical Investigation to Verify the Calendar Theory of the Nasca Lines
Applied Sciences, 2021 As in many regions of the world, astronomy also played a major role in the ancient Peruvian cultures. However, the discussion of the astronomical relevance of the Nasca geoglyphs is very controversial.
Christiane Richter +2 more
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Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2020 Recent research has shown that the entire southern rim of Amazonia was inhabited by earth-building societies involving landscape engineering, landscape domestication and likely low-density urbanism during the Late Holocene.
Jose Iriarte +7 more
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Holocene increases in palm abundances in north‐western Amazonia
Journal of Biogeography, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 698-711, March 2020., 2020 Abstract Aim In Amazonia, 227 of c. 16,000 tree species account for half the individual trees (termed ‘hyperdominant’ species), and a disproportionate number of these species are palms. Our objectives are to show how and whether palm abundance has changed through the Holocene.
Britte M. Heijink +5 more
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