Machu Picchu in Context
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Human Past
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Beschreibung
This book aims at integrating archaeology with science in order to provide additional information with respect to a traditional archaeological anthropological perspective. It sheds light on Incan culture, the relation between human frequentation and environmental changes, the Incan architecture in relation with Andean cosmovision using, for the first time, diverse technological and scientific approaches including LiDAR remote sensing, geophysics and radio carbon dating. A number of recent studies conducted by Polish, Italian and Peruvian scientific missions in Machu Picchu, Chachabamba and Cusco are presented and discussed.
Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
This book aims at integrating archaeology with science in order to provide additional information with respect to a traditional archaeological anthropological perspective. It sheds light on Incan culture, the relation between human frequentation and environmental changes, the Incan architecture in relation with Andean cosmovision using, for the first time, diverse technological and scientific approaches including LiDAR remote sensing, geophysics and radio carbon dating. A number of recent studies conducted by Polish, Italian and Peruvian scientific missions in Machu Picchu, Chachabamba and Cusco are presented and discussed.
Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Represents a significant advancement in the knowledge of Machu Picchu through results of multidisciplinary work Presents new discoveries and insights from the archaeological excavations Presents the results of radiocarbon dating using the most advanced AMS technologies
Autor*in
Mariusz Ziółkowski
Themen in »Machu Picchu in Context«
Inca Culture Machu Picchu Archaeoastronomy Architecture and Environment Remote Sensing for the Study of Human Past Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry