| Preface | 5 |
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| Contents | 8 |
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| Contributors | 12 |
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| Introduction – New Methods and Technologies of Natural Sciences for Archaeological Investigations in Nasca and Palpa, Peru | 17 |
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| Part I Geoarchaeology | 30 |
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| Man and Environment in the Eastern Atacama Desert ( Southern Peru): Holocene Climate Changes and Their Impact on Pre- Columbian Cultures | 31 |
| Built on Sand: Climatic Oscillation and Water Harvesting During the Late Intermediate Period | 52 |
| From Hunters to Regional Lords: Funerary Practices in Palpa, Peru | 128 |
| Talking Bones: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Individuals from Palpa | 149 |
| Who Were the Nasca? Population Dynamics in Pre- Columbian Southern Peru Revealed by Ancient DNA Analyses | 167 |
| 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 | 181 |
| The Nasca and Their Dear Creatures – Molecular Genetic Analysis of Pre- Columbian Camelid Bones and Textiles | 201 |
| Part II Geophysics | 60 |
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| Beneath the Desert Soil – Archaeological Prospecting with a Caesium Magnetometer | 61 |
| QuantumDetectionMeets Archaeology – Magnetic Prospection with SQUIDs, Highly Sensitive and Fast | 82 |
| Viewing the Subsurface in 3D: Sediment Tomography for ( Geo-) Archaeological Prospection in Palpa, Southern Peru | 97 |
| The Field of Sherds: Reconstructing Geomagnetic Field Variations from Peruvian Potsherds | 113 |
| Part III Bioarchaeology | 127 |
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| Part IV Archaeochronometry | 212 |
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| Of Layers and Sherds: A Context-Based Relative Chronology of the Nasca Style Pottery from Palpa | 213 |
| The Clock in the Corn Cob: On the Development of a Chronology of the Paracas and Nasca Period Based on Radiocarbon Dating | 237 |
| Cold Light from the Sediments of a Hot Desert: How Luminescence Dating Sheds Light on the Landscape Development of the Northeastern Atacama | 251 |
| Light Thrown on History – The Dating of Stone Surfaces at the Geoglyphs of Palpa Using Optically Stimulated Luminescence | 277 |
| Part V Geomatics | 290 |
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| Virtual Archaeology – New Methods of Image- Based 3D Modeling | 291 |
| Virtual Flight Over the Nasca Lines – Automated Generation of a Photorealistically Textured 3D Model of the Pampa de Nasca | 310 |
| Context Matters: GIS-Based Spatial Analysis of the Nasca Geoglyphs of Palpa | 324 |
| A Model Helicopter Over Pinchango Alto – Comparison of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Aerial Photogrammetry | 342 |
| Perspectives and Contrasts: Documentation and Interpretation of the Petroglyphs of Chichictara, Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Image- Based 3D Modeling | 362 |
| Pottery Plotted by Laser – 3D Acquisition for Documentation and Analysis of Symmetry of Ancient Ceramics | 381 |
| Part VI Archaeometallurgy | 393 |
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| Gold in Southern Peru? Perspectives of Research into Mining Archaeology | 394 |
| Fingerprints in Gold | 409 |
| Part VII Summary | 437 |
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| Life at the Edge of the Desert – Archaeological Reconstruction of the Settlement History in the Valleys of Palpa, Peru | 438 |
| References | 461 |
| Index | 503 |