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A Middle to Late Miocene Trans-Andean Portal: Geologic Record in the Tatacoa Desert
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 Integration of several geologic lines of evidence reveals the prevalence of a lowland trans-Andean portal communicating western Amazonia and the westernmost Andes from at least middle Miocene until Pliocene times.
C. Montes +19 more
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Maria Reiche's line to archaeoastronomy [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013 Maria Reiche was a German mathematician and archaeologist that, from 1940, devoted her life to the study of the Nazca Lines, the most famous Peruvian geoglyphs, gaining recognition and preservation of them. Created by removing the upper most layer of the
Sparavigna, A.C.
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Ritual complexes ("geoglifs") of the Turgay Deflection (preliminary message) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2018 Turgay deflection, the territory is contoured from the west by the spurs of the South Ural Mountains, from the east by the Kazakh Uplands and the spurs of the Ulutau Mountains, merges with the West Siberian Lowland in the north, and goes to the Shalkar ...
Logvin, A.V. +3 more
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Analysis of Colombian Seismicity as a Way to Explain and Understand The Bucaramanga Nest
JGEET: Journal of Geoscience, Engineering, Environment and Technology, 2018 Colombia is region with high seismicity due to the convergence of Panama Block, Nazca and Caribbean plates with the South American Plate, however there is a complex area named The Bucaramanga Nest which was the motive of this research means of its ...
Wilmer Emilio García Moreno
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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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TransatlanticaA significant moment unfolded in the Western world during the 1960s, as it sought to redefine the methods for understanding and approaching history. While Fernand Braudel crystallized the emerging epistemology in the field of the social sciences and the ...
Mylène Palluel
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Did a Series of Solar Eclipses Inspire the Nazca Lines?
, 2021 The mysterious lines in the desert of Nazca in southern Peru received many attempts at an explanation. We discuss the possibility that their origin is based on solar eclipses which could have evoked some kind of "reaction" by the inhabitants. In the mid-4th century BCE, six very conspicuous events within 20 years occurred over that area. The climax was
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Nazca Lines in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — a game design and historical perspective
, 2023 Verdier, F. (2023) Nazca Lines in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — a game design and historical perspective. Journal of Geek Studies 10(2): 107-115.
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Are the "circles" of marathon (Texas, USA) a timid north american version of the Nazca lines?
, 2020 ABSTRACT Marathon town in northern-west Texas, shows curious circles that can be seen from the space but difficultly from land. These “circles” have been found thanks to new satellite images, with quite non similar images positioned in other United State of America location.
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, 2020 This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.
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