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Huacas olvidadas y cerros santos
Estudios Atacameños, 2009 A través de la articulación de fuentes coloniales tempranas con los registros arqueológicos y etnográficos locales, hemos identificado varios cerros sacralizados y huacas prehispánicas de las regiones de Potosí y Chuquisaca (Bolivia).
Pablo Cruz
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El uso del fuego en el complejo arqueológico de las huacas del Sol y de la Luna, Perú. Un primer ensayo de tipología de las áreas de combustión [PDF]
Bulletin De L'Institut Français D'études Andines, 2015 Little attention has been given to the study of combustion structures in the Prehispanic urban sites of the Central Andes. Our study focused on a sample of the combustion areas registered during the 20 years of research at Huacas del Sol y de la Luna ...
Feren Castillo Luján +2 more
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Population genomics reveals how 5 ka of human occupancy led the Lima leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus sentosus) to the brink of extinction [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Small species with high home fidelity, high ecological specialization or low vagility are particularly prone to suffer from habitat modification and fragmentation.
Alejandra Arana +5 more
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Environmental risk management: A participatory diagnosis from a rural school in Colombia [PDF]
Jàmbá, 2023 The rural population is potentially exposed to several environmental risks. Environmental risk management is a recurring challenge in rural educational communities that are far from large urban areas. Assessing and identifying the knowledge on prevention
Carolina Moncayo +6 more
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Estudios Atacameños, 2022 Huacas de Moche -también conocido como Huacas del Sol y de la Luna-, es uno de los sitios icónicos de la arqueología andina. Tradicionalmente, el conocimiento científico y popular asocia el sitio con la cultura Mochica, o Moche. Se afirma que, entre los
Carlos Rengifo Chunga +2 more
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Frozen Mummies from Andean Mountaintop Shrines: Bioarchaeology and Ethnohistory of Inca Human Sacrifice. [PDF]
Biomed Res Int, 2015 This study will focus on frozen mummies of sacrificial victims from mounts Llullaillaco (6739 m), Quehuar (6130 m), El Toro (6160 m), and the Aconcagua massif. These finds provide bioarchaeological data from mountaintop sites that has been recovered in scientifically controlled excavations in the northwest of Argentina, which was once part of the ...
Ceruti MC.
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Pastoralism in northern Peru during pre-Hispanic times: insights from the Mochica Period (100-800 AD) based on stable isotopic analysis of domestic camelids. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Llama (Lama glama) and alpaca (Vicugna pacos) are the only large domesticated animals indigenous to the Americas. Pastoralism occupies a fundamental economic, social and religious role in Andean life.
Elise Dufour +5 more
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Archaeological ProspectionABSTRACT At the Huacas de Moche (HdM), one of the most prominent archaeological sites in Trujillo, Peru, the needs of an expanding modern community are in direct conflict with the desire to preserve the wealth of archaeological information. The undetermined extent of the HdM site introduces disputes in land usage where potential archaeological features
Richard Krähenbühl +2 more
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El alcance de los poderes de “huacas” y de “camascas” en los Andes
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2014 The notion of hechicería (sorcery) stood at the centre of the encounters between Andean people and Europeans from the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century. It shaped European perceptions and actions; it led to the persecution of Andean people.
Claudia Brosseder
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The cosmology of Inca huacas [PDF]
, 2009 The Incas honored and venerated many features of both natural and man-made landscapes that they felt to be endowed with superhuman powers. In Quechua these shrines were known as huacas, and at the time of the Spanish conquest there were thousands of them.
Gullberg, Steven Roland
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