New technologies for archaeology : multidisciplinary investigations in Palpa and Nasca, Peru / Markus Reindel, Günther A. Wagner (eds.).

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berlin : Springer, ©2009.
Description
xvii, 512 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

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"This book gives a representative overview of recent developments in archaeometry. It reveals the enormous potential of well executed multidisciplinary research. Furthermore, it is an example of how complex cultural history can be reconstructed in a combined effort of different disciplines. And last but not least it presents a detailed history of human development as well as its interaction with natural environment in the Nasca region, based on South Americas most detailed numeric archaeochronology."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-504) and index.
Contents
  • 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 ... [et al.]
  • 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 ... [et al.]
  • 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 ... [et al.]
  • 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 ... [et al.]
  • 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 ... [et al.]
  • 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 ... [et al.]
  • 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 ... [et al.]
  • Life at the edge of the desert : archaeological reconstruction of the settlement history in the valleys of Palpa, Peru / Markus Reindel.
ISBN
  • 9783540874379 ((hbk.))
  • 3540874372 ((hbk.))
LCCN
2008936494
OCLC
305128390
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