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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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Long-Term Consequences: Deep Time in Barry Lopez’s “The Stone Horse”
Transatlantica, 2016 As a literary artifact of deep time, Barry Lopez’s essay “The Stone Horse” anticipates the building of the Clock of the Long Now, a project of the Long Now Foundation designed to foster long-term thinking and ecological stewardship.
Norma Tilden
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Remote Sensing, 2018 The “Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa” in Peru are among the most well-known UNESCO World Heritage Sites globally, and an exemplar of site where heritage assets cannot be separated from their natural and anthropogenic environment.
Francesca Cigna, Deodato Tapete
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Geosciences, 2017 We used synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data collected over Peru’s Lines and Geoglyphs of the Nasca and Palpa World Heritage Site to detect and measure landscape disturbance threatening world-renowned archaeological features and ecosystems.
Douglas C. Comer +2 more
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High Resolution Drone Surveying of the Pista Geoglyph in Palpa, Peru
Geosciences, 2018 Currently, satellite images can be used to document historical or archaeological sites in areas that are distant, dangerous, or expensive to visit, and they can be used instead of basic fieldwork in several cases.
Karel Pavelka +2 more
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Les vestiges comme source de légitimation territoriale
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2017 Drawing from local records of material vestiges of the past, understood here in the broad sense of objects and traces of different presences including those of nonhumans, this paper addresses how indigenous and riverside populations in Brazil and ...
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen +2 more
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Hypotheses about geoglyphs at Nasca, Peru: new discoveries
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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Geological observations on archeoastronomical objects of the ridge Sunduki and mount Tarping (Khakasia) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2018 In autumn of 2016, the author participated in the Second Russian seminar on the field of archeoastronomy, which took place in the tract of the Sunduki (Khakasia) and was dedicated to the memory of the famous scientist-archaeologist and orientalist V.
Negoda, I.V.
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Illapa, 2020 El inmenso acervo iconográfico contenido en los innumerables paisajes rupestres del Perú estimula la intuición de que muchos de aquellos diseños pintados y grabados en la roca –figurativos y abstractos–, deben tener versiones equivalentes en la alfarería,
Manuel Munive Maco
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