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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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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, Jaroslav Šedina, Eva Matoušková   +2 more
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Detecting Landscape Disturbance at the Nasca Lines Using SAR Data Collected from Airborne and Satellite Platforms

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, Bruce D. Chapman, Jacob A. Comer   +2 more
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Maria Reiche's Line to Archaeoastronomy [PDF]

, 2012
Maria Reiche devoted her life to the study of the Nazca Lines, the most famous Peruvian geoglyphs. In fact, she was an archaeoastronomer that proposed for the Lines some interesting astronomical interpretations.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Tracking Human-Induced Landscape Disturbance at the Nasca Lines UNESCO World Heritage Site in Peru with COSMO-SkyMed InSAR

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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Documentation and interpretation of the petroglyphs of Chichictara, Palpa (Peru), using terrestrial laser scanning and image-based 3D modeling [PDF]

, 2008
In Chichictara, southern Peru, petroglyphs cover the surface of around 150 rocks, located in a small valley. The goals of the Chichictara Project are the documentation of the petroglyphs, the dating of them and an understanding of the original social ...
Fux, Peter, Peterhans, Janine, Sauerbier, Martin   +2 more
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Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia [PDF]

, 2019
The long term response of ancient societies to climate change has been a matter of global debate. Until recently, the lack of integrative studies between archaeological, palaeoecological, and palaeoclimatological data had prevented an evaluation of the ...
Alves, Daiana T., Apaestegui, James, Capriles, Jose, da Cruz Jr, Francisco W., de Souza, Jonas G., Hoggarth, Julia A., Hooghiemstra, Henry, Iriarte, Jose, Lombardo, Umberto, Maezumi, Yoshi, Mayle, Francis E., Novello, Valdir F., Power, Mitchell J., Robinson, Mark, Rostain, Stephen, Urrego, Dunia, Whitney, Bronwen   +16 more
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Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil [PDF]

, 2018
This paper applies concepts from the fields of historical ecology and human niche construction theory to interpret archaeological and palaeoecological data from the Brazilian state of Acre, southwest Amazonia, where modern deforestation has revealed ...
Armstrong, Arroyo-Kalin, Arroyo-Kalin, Balée, Balée, Balée, Barlow, Boivin, Burbridge, Bush, Carneiro, Carson, Chandler-Ezell, Clement, Clement, Crumley, Crumley, Daly, de Carvalho, de Freitas, Denevan, Denevan, Denise Schaan, Descola, Dias, Dickau, Dickau, Eden, Erickson, Erickson, Erickson, Francis E. Mayle, Gow, Griscom, Gross, Hayashida, Heckenberger, Heckenberger, Iriarte, Iriarte, Jennifer Watling, Junqueira, Kluiving, Knapp, Laland, Laland, Lins, Lombardo, Mayle, Mayle, McKey, McMichael, McMichael, McMichael, McMichael, Meggers, Meggers, Metcalfe, Morães, Odling-Smee, Pessenda, Pessenda, Petersen, Phillips, Piperno, Piperno, Piperno, Piperno, Piperno, Piperno, Politis, Posey, Posey, Pärssinen, Quesada, Ranzi, Reimer, Rival, Roberts, Rowley-Conwy, Salm, Saunaluoma, Saunaluoma, Saunaluoma, Schaan, Schaan, Shennan, Silveira, Smith, Smith, Stahl, Szabó, Virtanen, Virtanen, Virtanen, Viveiros de Castro, Watling, Watling, Watling, Watling, Watling, Whitehead, Zeder, Zucchi   +103 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, Emilie Stoll, Florencia Tola   +2 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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