New technologies for archaeology : multidisciplinary investigations in Palpa and Nasca, Peru
Gives an overview of developments in archaeometry. This work presents a detailed history of human development as well as its interaction with natural environment in the Nasca region, based on South America's detailed numeric archaeochronology
1 online resource (xvii, 512 pages) : color illustrations
9783540874386, 9783540874379, 3540874380, 3540874372
318545504
Introduction : new methods and technologies of natural sciences for archaeological investigations in Nasca and Palpa, Peru / Markus Reindel and Günther A. Wagner
Man and environment in the eastern Atacama Desert (southern Peru) : Holocene climate changes and their impact on pre-Columbian cultures / Bernhard Eitel and Bertil Mächtle
Built on sand : climatic oscillation and water harvesting during the late intermediate period / Bertil Mächtle [and others]
Beneath the desert soil : archaeological prospecting with a caesium magnetometer / Jörg W.E. Fassbinder and Tomasz H. Gorka
Quantum detection meets archaeology : magnetic prospection with SQUIDs, highly sensitive and fast / Sven Linzen [and others]
Viewing the subsurface in 3D : sediment tomography for (geo- )archaeological prospection in Palpa, southern Peru / Stefan Hecht
The field of sherds : reconstructing geomagnetic field variations from Peruvian potsherds / Florian Stark [and others]
From hunters to regional lords : funerary practices in Palpa, Peru / Johny Isla Cuadrado
Talking bones : bioarchaeological analysis of individuals from Palpa / Elsa Tomasto Cagigao
Who were the Nasca? Population dynamics in pre-Columbian southern Peru revealed by ancient DNA analyses / Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Susanne Hummel and Bernd Herrmann
Humans and camelids in river oases of the Ica-Palpa-Nazca region in pre-Hispanic times : insights from H-C-N-O-S-Sr isotope signatures / Peter Horn [and others]
The Nasca and their dear creatures : molecular genetic analysis of pre-Columbian camelid bones and textiles / Rebecca Renneberg, Susanne Hummel and Bernd Herrmann
Of layers and sherds : a context-based relative chronology of the Nasca style pottery from Palpa / Niels Hecht
The clock in the corn cob : on the development of a chronology of the Paracas and Nasca period based on radiocarbon dating / Ingmar Unkel and Bernd Kromer
Cold light from the sediments of a hot desert : how luminescence dating sheds light on the landscape development of the northeastern Atacama / Annette Kadereit [and others]
Light thrown on history : the dating of stone surfaces at the geoglyphs of Palpa using optically stimulated luminescence / Steffen Greilich and Günther A. Wagner
Virtual archaeology : new methods of image-based 3D modeling / Armin Gruen
Virtual flight over the Nasca lines : automated generation of a photorealistically textured 3D model of the Pampa de Nasca / Martin Sauerbier
Context matters : GIS-based spatial analysis of the Nasca geoglyphs of Palpa / Karsten Lambers and Martin Sauerbier
A model helicopter over Pinchango Alto : comparison of terrestrial laser scanning and aerial photogrammetry / Henri Eisenbeiss
Perspectives and contrasts : documentation and interpretation of the petroglyphs of Chichictara, using terrestrial laser scanning and image-based 3D modeling / Peter Fux [and others]
Pottery plotted by laser : 3D acquisition for documentation and analysis of symmetry of ancient ceramics / Hubert Mara
Gold in southern Peru? Perspectives of research into mining archaeology / Thomas Stöllner
Fingerprints in gold / Sandra Schlosser [and others]
Life at the edge of the desert : archaeological reconstruction of the settlement history in the valleys of Palpa, Peru / Markus Reindel