New Technologies for Archaeology: Multidisciplinary Investigations in Palpa and Nasca, Peru

Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction – New Methods and Technologies of Natural Sciences for Archaeological Investigations in Nasca and Palpa, Peru....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Man and Environment in the Eastern Atacama Desert (Southern Peru): Holocene Climate Changes and Their Impact on Pre-Columbian Cultures....Pages 17-23
Built on Sand: Climatic Oscillation and Water Harvesting During the Late Intermediate Period....Pages 39-46
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Beneath the Desert Soil – Archaeological Prospecting with a Caesium Magnetometer....Pages 49-69
Quantum Detection Meets Archaeology – Magnetic Prospection with SQUIDs, Highly Sensitive and Fast....Pages 71-85
Viewing the Subsurface in 3D: Sediment Tomography for (Geo-)Archaeological Prospection in Palpa, Southern Peru....Pages 87-102
The Field of Sherds: Reconstructing Geomagnetic Field Variations from Peruvian Potsherds....Pages 103-116
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From Hunters to Regional Lords: Funerary Practices in Palpa, Peru....Pages 119-139
Talking Bones: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Individuals from Palpa....Pages 141-158
Who Were the Nasca? Population Dynamics in Pre-Columbian Southern Peru Revealed by Ancient DNA Analyses....Pages 159-172
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....Pages 173-192
The Nasca and Their Dear Creatures – Molecular Genetic Analysis of Pre-Columbian Camelid Bones and Textiles....Pages 193-203
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Of Layers and Sherds: A Context-Based Relative Chronology of the Nasca Style Pottery from Palpa....Pages 207-230
The Clock in the Corn Cob: On the Development of a Chronology of the Paracas and Nasca Period Based on Radiocarbon Dating....Pages 231-244
Cold Light from the Sediments of a Hot Desert: How Luminescence Dating Sheds Light on the Landscape Development of the Northeastern Atacama....Pages 245-270
Light Thrown on History – The Dating of Stone Surfaces at the Geoglyphs of Palpa Using Optically Stimulated Luminescence....Pages 271-283
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Virtual Archaeology – New Methods of Image-Based 3D Modeling....Pages 287-305
Virtual Flight Over the Nasca Lines – Automated Generation of a Photorealistically Textured 3D Model of the Pampa de Nasca....Pages 307-320
Context Matters: GIS-Based Spatial Analysis of the Nasca Geoglyphs of Palpa....Pages 321-338
A Model Helicopter Over Pinchango Alto – Comparison of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Aerial Photogrammetry....Pages 339-358
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Perspectives and Contrasts: Documentation and Interpretation of the Petroglyphs of Chichictara, Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Image-Based 3D Modeling....Pages 359-377
Pottery Plotted by Laser – 3D Acquisition for Documentation and Analysis of Symmetry of Ancient Ceramics....Pages 379-390
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Gold in Southern Peru? Perspectives of Research into Mining Archaeology....Pages 393-407
Fingerprints in Gold....Pages 409-436
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Life at the Edge of the Desert – Archaeological Reconstruction of the Settlement History in the Valleys of Palpa, Peru....Pages 439-461
Back Matter....Pages 465-512