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

- New Methods and Technologies of Natural Sciences for Archaeological Investigations in Nasca and Palpa, Peru.- - New Methods and Technologies of Natural Sciences for Archaeological Investigations in Nasca and Palpa, Peru.- Geoarchaeology.- Man and Environment in the Eastern Atacama Desert (Southern Peru): Holocene Climate Changes and Their Impact on Pre-Columbian Cultures.- Built on Sand: Climatic Oscillation and Water Harvesting During the Late Intermediate Period.- Geophysics.- Beneath the Desert Soil - Archaeological Prospecting with a Caesium Magnetometer.- Quantum Detection Meets Archaeology - Magnetic Prospection with SQUIDs, Highly Sensitive and Fast.- Viewing the Subsurface in 3D: Sediment Tomography for (Geo-)Archaeological Prospection in Palpa, Southern Peru.- The Field of Sherds: Reconstructing Geomagnetic Field Variations from Peruvian Potsherds.- Bioarchaeology.- From Hunters to Regional Lords: Funerary Practices in Palpa, Peru.- Talking Bones: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Individuals from Palpa.- Who Were the Nasca? Population Dynamics in Pre-Columbian Southern Peru Revealed by Ancient DNA Analyses.- 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.- The Nasca and Their Dear Creatures - Molecular Genetic Analysis of Pre-Columbian Camelid Bones and Textiles.- Archaeochronometry.- Of Layers and Sherds: A Context-Based Relative Chronology of the Nasca Style Pottery from Palpa.- The Clock in the Corn Cob: On the Development of a Chronology of the Paracas and Nasca Period Based on Radiocarbon Dating.- Cold Light from the Sediments of a Hot Desert: How Luminescence Dating Sheds Light on the Landscape Development of the Northeastern Atacama.- Light Thrown on History - The Dating of Stone Surfaces at the Geoglyphs of Palpa Using Optically Stimulated Luminescence.- Geomatics.- Virtual Archaeology - New Methods of Image-Based 3D Modeling.- Virtual Flight Over the Nasca Lines - Automated Generation of a Photorealistically Textured 3D Model of the Pampa de Nasca.- Context Matters: GIS-Based Spatial Analysis of the Nasca Geoglyphs of Palpa.- A Model Helicopter Over Pinchango Alto - Comparison of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Aerial Photogrammetry.- Perspectives and Contrasts: Documentation and Interpretation of the Petroglyphs of Chichictara, Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Image-Based 3D Modeling.- Pottery Plotted by Laser - 3D Acquisition for Documentation and Analysis of Symmetry of Ancient Ceramics.- Archaeometallurgy.- Gold in Southern Peru? Perspectives of Research into Mining Archaeology.- Fingerprints in Gold.- Summary.- Life at the Edge of the Desert - Archaeological Reconstruction of the Settlement History in the Valleys of Palpa, Peru.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642099548
• ISBN13: 9783642099540
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"