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

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Markus Reindel, Günther A. Wagner
Springer Science & Business Media, 2009 M02 7 - 512 pages

This heavily-illustrated book covers recent developments in archaeometry and offers a multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing complex cultural histories. It also presents a detailed history of human development in South America’s Nasca region.

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Contents

Introduction New Methods and Technologies of Natural Sciences
1
Reconstructing Geomagnetic Field Variations
7
Niels Hecht M A German Archaeological Institute DAI Commission
35
Climatic Oscillation and Water Harvesting During
38
Beneath the Desert Soil Archaeological Prospecting
49
Quantum Detection Meets Archaeology Magnetic Prospection
70
Sediment Tomography
86
Funerary Practices in Palpa Peru 119
118
Light Thrown on History The Dating of Stone Surfaces at
271
Virtual Archaeology New Methods of ImageBased 3D Modeling
287
Virtual Flight Over the Nasca Lines Automated Generation
306
GISBased Spatial Analysis of the Nasca
321
A Model Helicopter Over Pinchango Alto Comparison of Terrestrial
339
Documentation and Interpretation
359
Pottery Plotted by Laser 3D Acquisition for Documentation
379
Gold in Southern Peru? Perspectives of Research into Mining
392

Bioarchaeological Analysis of Individuals from Palpa
141
Who Were the Nasca? Population Dynamics in PreColumbian
159
Humans and Camelids in River Oases of the IcaPalpaNazca Region
173
The Nasca and Their Dear Creatures Molecular Genetic Analysis
193
A ContextBased Relative Chronology
207
On the Development of a Chronology
231
How Luminescence
245
Tomasz H Gorka Bavarian State Department for Monuments and Sites
399
Fingerprints in Gold
409
Life at the Edge of the Desert Archaeological Reconstruction of
438
References
463
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Index
505
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About the author (2009)

Markus Reindel is an archaeologist specialized in South American and Mesoamerican cultures. He earned his Ph. D. degree at the University of Bonn in Germany. He carried out archaelogical fieldwork in northern Peru, on the coast of Ecuador, in Yucatan, Mexiko and again in Peru, where he is engaged in the investigation of the Nasca culture during the last ten years.

Günther A. Wagner directed the Research Group of Archaeometry, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, situated at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, and was at the same time professor for geology at the University of Heidelberg. After his retirement in 2006 he joined the Department of Geography. In 1999 he became the first president of the German Archaeometric Society. He is member of the German Archaeological Institute. He has authored/coauthored several books and numerous articles. He acted as Managing Editor of the journal ‘Archaeometry’ and still is Editor of the series ‘Natural Science in Archaeology’. His research topics are archaeochronometry, archaeometallurgy and geoarchaeology.

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