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The Inca Bridges in the Huánuco Region
American Antiquity, 1966AbstractEthnohistorical, archaeological, and ethnological data are combined in a discussion of Inca bridges in the Huanuco area. A colonial document provides the details of how a major bridge on the Inca highway was constructed by placing a series of logs over projecting canes.
Donald E. Thompson, John V. Murra
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Skeletal evidence for Inca warfare from the Cuzco region of Peru
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2011AbstractThis article addresses the bioarchaeological evidence for Inca warfare through an analysis of 454 adult skeletons from 11 sites in the Inca capital region of Cuzco, Peru. These 11 sites span almost 1000 years (AD 600–1532), which allows for a comparison of the evidence for warfare before the Inca came to power (Middle Horizon AD 600–1000 ...
Valerie A, Andrushko, Elva C, Torres
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Pre-Inca mining in the Southern Nasca Region, Peru
Antiquity, 2009Guided by modern miners of the region the authors track down pre-Inca mining sites in the Southern Nasca Region of Peru. In the hinterlands away from both modern and ancient roads they find a surprising number of small sites serving the pre-Inca industry, principally in the Nasca period.
Jelmer W. Eerkens +2 more
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Journal of Archaeological Research, 2001
The past two decades have witnessed an increase in the amount of regional research on the Inca state of Andean South America. This work has revolutionized our view of the Inca empire and has provided a comparative database for understanding the nature of imperial expansion in premodern empires. This paper places this work in historical context. It then
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The past two decades have witnessed an increase in the amount of regional research on the Inca state of Andean South America. This work has revolutionized our view of the Inca empire and has provided a comparative database for understanding the nature of imperial expansion in premodern empires. This paper places this work in historical context. It then
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Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2022
AbstractBackgroundWe developed a statistical region of interest (sROI) of gray matter (GM) for which cortical thickness (CT) significantly differed in a “training set” of 100 cognitively normal and 100 individuals with incident dementia in the Framingham Heart Study. sROI significantly predicts incident cognitive impairment and dementia in both FHS and
Evan M Fletcher +12 more
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AbstractBackgroundWe developed a statistical region of interest (sROI) of gray matter (GM) for which cortical thickness (CT) significantly differed in a “training set” of 100 cognitively normal and 100 individuals with incident dementia in the Framingham Heart Study. sROI significantly predicts incident cognitive impairment and dementia in both FHS and
Evan M Fletcher +12 more
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The Distribution and Contents of Inca State Storehouses in the Xauxa Region of Peru
American Antiquity, 1984The activities of the Inca state in the Xauxa region of the Peruvian central highlands were partially supported by the stockpiling of agricultural, gathered, and craft goods in over 2,000 storehouses, distributed among 52 architectural complexes. The spatial organization and architectural standardization of the storage facilities suggest that the ...
Terence N. D'Altroy +1 more
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2023
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), one of the major pollutants, impacts air quality (especially in industrial and urban regions), climate change, etc. We utilize tropospheric vertical column NO2 for 2019 and 2020 from a high-resolution nadir viewing spectrometer TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) which is on board the Sentinel-5 Precurser (S5P ...
Santanu Halder +8 more
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Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), one of the major pollutants, impacts air quality (especially in industrial and urban regions), climate change, etc. We utilize tropospheric vertical column NO2 for 2019 and 2020 from a high-resolution nadir viewing spectrometer TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) which is on board the Sentinel-5 Precurser (S5P ...
Santanu Halder +8 more
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Inca Transformations of the Chachapoya Region
2018The goal of this chapter is to reconstruct the socioeconomic impact that Inca rule had on the Chachapoya and the geographic landscape they inhabited. By using different lines of evidence, including archaeology and ethnohistory, supplemented with botanic and bioarchaeological data, this chapter explores the complex relations that the Inca established ...
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The Spread of Inca Power in the Cuzco Region
2018Colonial documents demonstrate that the Incas thought about and described their origins in different ways: as the invention of a unique imperial ruling title, as the genealogy of royal households descended from previous rulers, and as the unification of many Cuzco area groups to create an imperial heartland.
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Archaeometry
Abstract This study explores the role of tambo San Francisco (4000 m a.s.l.), located near the Incahuasi volcano and associated high‐altitude sanctuary (6638 m a.s.l.), as a potential aggregation site for political commensalism and religious pilgrimage within the Inca Empire.
Norma Ratto +4 more
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Abstract This study explores the role of tambo San Francisco (4000 m a.s.l.), located near the Incahuasi volcano and associated high‐altitude sanctuary (6638 m a.s.l.), as a potential aggregation site for political commensalism and religious pilgrimage within the Inca Empire.
Norma Ratto +4 more
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