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The Nasca Culture

2016
The Nasca culture of the Early Intermediate Period was the first large, complex, regional integrated society centered in the region. This chapter explores the nature of complexity during the Nasca culture and presents new data from La Tiza that challenges previous interpretations.
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Nasca patterning in the microworld

Nature Photonics, 2020
Launching electrons to the centre of an optical field with a vortex phase profile via extreme-ultraviolet photoionization makes coherent imprinting of the spatial distribution of the vortex beam onto the electron wave packet possible.
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Nasca Geoglyph Center

2014
Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit mit dem Titel Nasca Geoglyph Center hat das peruanische Weltkulturerbe der Linien und Geoglyphen von Nasca zum Thema. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Konzeption eines Besucherzentrums anhand der Forschungsfrage: Was kann die Architektur von den Geoglyphen lernen?
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Thirty Years of Investigations in Nasca: From Proyecto Nasca to the ITACA Mission

2016
The Nasca Project, which can be considered the longest-running archaeological mission in Peru, came into being in 1982. The project, sponsored by the Centro Italiano Studi e Ricerche Archeologiche Precolombiane (CISRAP) in Brescia, was conducted uninterruptedly in the Nasca area of the Ica region in Peru from 1982 to 2014, thanks to a bilateral ...
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Ancient Society in Nasca

2016
This introductory chapter presents background information on the Nasca region and discusses the Nasca Lines, which are geoglyphs (ground drawings) and the feature for which the area is best known. The geoglyphs were created by the people of the Nasca culture, which was just one of many societies in the long prehistory of the region.
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Proto-Nasca art and antaras

Ñawpa Pacha, 2015
The Dawson Nasca pottery seriation has not been updated since 1970, and it was never published in its entirety. An elusive “master sequence” based primarily on whole pots, which bore limited relevance to field situations, dissuaded recent generations of south-coast researchers from the study of ceramic chronology and iconography.
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Nasca Culture Religion

On the southern coast of Peru, the extent of the influence of the Nasca culture (Early Intermediate Period - EIP) has been located as far north as the Chincha Valley and the Acarí Valley to the south. This cultural unit which was governed by a centralized Nasca authority from the Rio Grande Basin (Canziani, 2012; Carmichael, 2020), follows relative ...
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Life in the Nasca Desert

2016
This chapter covers the geography, natural resources (water, soil, plant, and animal), and environment of the Nasca region. The natural and climatic phenomena that impact the area are described and include earthquakes, El Niño, and drought. In addition, evidence for long-term patterns of environmental change in the region is presented.
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Líneas de Nasca

Se conoce como las Líneas de Nasca a un conjunto amplio de geoglifos prehispánicos que se encuentran dispersos en las pampas y faldas de cerros desérticos de la Cuenca del Rio Grande de Nasca, Costa Sur del Perú. Estos varían en sus dimensiones, técnicas de construcción, diseños, y antigüedad; pueden ser de pocos metros de largo o extenderse varios ...
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Beyond the Nasca Lines

2016
Beyond the Nasca Lines examines the origin, rise, fall, and reformation of complex societies through investigations conducted at the archaeological site of La Tiza in the desert of Nasca, Peru. La Tiza was inhabited for over 5000 years and has the longest occupation of any settlement in the region, providing an unprecedented ...
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