Machu Picchu in Context

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Machu Picchu in Context

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Human Past

History of the Americas Archaeology Social geography Regional geography Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

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Collection: Social Sciences

Language: English

Published by: Springer

Published on: 12th November 2022

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 306 Mb

ISBN: 9783030927660


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.

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