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L’art rupestre de l’ancien Pérou
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2008 Research on symbolic components and practices relates to fields which are very different but often fundamental for human societies. These can be studied either under the rather static aspect of the permanence and the part played by symbols in the ...
Jean Guffroy
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The Geoglyphs of the Atacama Desert: A Bond of Landscape and Mobility [PDF]
, 2012 In the northern-most area of Chile, stretching six hundred miles down the coast of South America and expanding more than forty thousand square miles into Bolivia, Peru and Argentina lies the Atacama Desert.
Labash, Marika
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Indigenous and colonial influences on Amazonian forests
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 4, Page 803-823, July 2024.Global climate models that incorporate carbon sources and sinks usually consider that forest uptake of carbon is in a state of equilibrium. Both historical and paleoecological records suggest that this is commonly not the case for Amazonia. Here, the impacts of colonial practices on Amazonian Indigenous peoples and forests are reviewed.
Majoi N. Nascimento +2 more
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Paracas Geoglyphs at Cerro Ocucaje, Ica, Peru
Arqueología y Sociedad, 2021 This article presents unpublished data from an Archaeological Landscape with the presence of figurative geoglyphs. The study synthesizes and discusses the photogrammetric results of the recent archaeological finds in Cerro Ocucaje, within the framework of the Geoglyphs of Ica Archaeological Project. During the Late Paracas period (about 370-200 BC) and
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Internet software programs aid in search for Amazonian geoglyphs [PDF]
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 2007 The Web‐based Google Earth software program recently has incorporated high‐resolution satellite imagery that facilitates the search for landscape expressions of past civilizations that we call geoglyphs. Since 2000, about 40 such geoglyphs have been observed in overflights above recently deforested pastures of southwestern Amazonia in eastern Acre ...
Alceu Ranzi, Robert Feres, Foster Brown
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RPAS for documentation of Nazca aqueducts
European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019 In Peru, there are not many aqueduct systems, only in Nasca region. They are popularly known as “puquíos”, hidden in the dry landscape. Most of them are around the city of Nasca known mainly for the nearby famous Nazca lines and geoglyphs.
Jaroslav Šedina +3 more
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Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia [PDF]
, 2014 There is considerable controversy over whether pre-Columbian (pre-A.D. 1492) Amazonia was largely “pristine” and sparsely populated by slash-and-burn agriculturists, or instead a densely populated, domesticated landscape, heavily altered by extensive ...
Carson, John Francis +6 more
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ArtsArchaeological surface features on desert pavements, including geoglyphs, are notoriously difficult to assess. Lacking temporally diagnostic artifacts, they may be impossible to place chronologically, limiting their inferential utility. Not surprisingly,
David S. Whitley, Ronald I. Dorn
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Symbolic landforms created by ancient earthworks near Lake Titicaca [PDF]
, 2010 Interesting landforms created by an ancient network of earthworks are shown, using Google satellite imagery enhanced by an image processing. This network covers a large part of the land near the Titicaca Lake.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Diversity of Pre-colonial Earthworks in the Brazilian State of Acre, Southwestern Amazonia [PDF]
, 2018 Amazonian earthworks, which are an important testimony to ancient anthropogenic landscape modifications, have a significant variety of structures and sizes, and are found in different geographical and ecological locations that indicate separate time ...
Pärssinen, Martti +2 more
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