Cusco (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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Agricultural experiments in raised fields in the Titicaca basin, Peru: preliminary considerations (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Z I Garaycochea.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Alt-Peru - spinnen - weben - opfern: ein Führer zur altperuanischen Textilsammlung der Völkerkunde-Abteilung des Lippischen Landesmuseums Detmold (1992)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger Meyer.

American Indians in the Pacific: The Theory behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition (1952)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Heyerdahl.

AMS RADIOCARBON DATING FOR SAMPLES MELTING OUT FROM THE MARGIN OF A GLACIER IN PERU (2010)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Three vegetation samples recovered during 2009 and 2010 field work in Peru were submitted for radiocarbon dating. The samples included two unidentified hardwood shrub twigs and a clump of grass associated with the margin of a receding glacier.

Archäologie in Peru, Archäometrie: Ergebnisse (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wolfgang Bauer.

Fachsymposium der Deutsch-Peruanischen Archäologischen Gesellschaft, München

Art and Moche Martial Arts (2008)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Quilter.

J. Whittaker: Nothing to suggest coordinated formations, or attacks on fortification, most agree essence of M war was one-on-one combat for captures. Larco (2001) major source of info; in his museum distinguishes darts from lances (over 2 m long), no dart specimens. Darts always shown as compound weapons with long pt and thicker shaft. Lances or long spears rarely shown in M art. Copper spikes 25-50 cm long Larco thinks lance pts, but could be dart pts, would need counter weight on shaft to...

The balsa raft in aboriginal navigation of Peru and Ecuador (1955)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Heyerdahl.

Ceramic ecology of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru: implications for prehistory (1975)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean E Arnold.

Ceramic longevity and archaeological interpretation: an example from the upper Ucayali, Peru (1974)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Warren R de Boer.

Cheqoq Inka Imperial Workshop Ceramic Rims (Cusco, Peru) (2018)

DATASET Kylie Quave.

Subset of ceramics recovered at the archaeological site of Cheqoq-Maras (Urubamba, Cusco, Peru) during excavations of a Cuzco-Inka (imperial-style) pottery workshop. These data include contextual attributes, as well as rim diameters, rim thickness, and body thickness for all Cuzco-Inka rim sherds identifiable to form type. These data have been published in Quave, Kylie E. 2017. "Imperial-style ceramic production on a royal estate in the Inka heartland (Cuzco, Peru)." Latin American Antiquity 28...

Did Polynesian Culture Originate in America? (1941)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Heyerdahl.

Die Steinmetztechnik der Inka (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean Pierre Protzen.

Domestic ceramic production and spatial organisation (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean E Arnold.

Don’t Call Them Fakes: Museums, Markets, And Authenticity In Peruvian Antiquities Collections (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Fernanda Boza Cuadros.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies and Latin American Voices: Dialogues Transcending Colonizing Archaeologies", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. European ethnographic museums are riddled with Peruvian archaeological objects, many of them looted, gathered, commercialized and transported to Europe along with other plundered commodities. Among these collections, however, are plenty of artifacts of recent manufacture currently...

Dung by preference: the choice of fuel as an example of how Andean pottery production is embedded within wider technical, social and economic practices (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only B Sillar.

Ecology and pottery production in an Andean community (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean E Arnold.

Ethnomineralogy of Ticul, Yucatan potters: etics and emics (1971)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean E Arnold.

Foreign Archaeology As An Extractive Practice (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francesca Fernandini.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies and Latin American Voices: Dialogues Transcending Colonizing Archaeologies", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The praxis of archaeology performed by foreign projects in developing countries such as Peru presents a clear extractive nature: data is extracted as raw material and exported to funding institutions almost always located in the global north. This data is then analyzed and...

Historical Gold Mining and Environmental Impact in the Ocoña Valley of Southern Peru (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danny Zborover. María Cecilia Lozada. Alex Elvis Badillo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Environmental and Social Issues within Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located at the heart of the ‘Nazca-Ocoña Gold Belt’, Corral Redondo represents one of the most enigmatic archaeological sites in southern Peru. While the site shot to fame after the well-publicized looting of spectacular prehispanic artifacts in the 1940’s, our recent archaeological project...

Huayna Picchu Survey with the Optech ILRIS-3D (2005)

SENSORY DATA Angie Payne.

Huayna Picchu is a large mountain that rises over Machu Picchu, on the north side of the site. The mountain's summit is terraced, and supports several structures. The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST), University of Arkansas conducted high density surveys of Huayna Picchu in 2005. CAST researchers completed two long range scans of the mountain top and its ruins from a single vantage point. The original scan files and a merged point cloud data set are provided here. Visit...

Inca (2018)

DATASET Paula Sabloff. Jack Jackson.

Dataset of 40 statuses (positions) found in the archaeological and historical literature on the Late Shang Dynasty (1250 to 1046 BC). For each status, the expected roles and actual behaviors are listed, as are the rank (relative position) and bases for legitimacy or anyone holding the given status. Additional information on the society or status-holders' roles/behaviors are given as are all references from which the information came.

Inca quarrying and stonecutting (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean Pierre Protzen.

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft (1950)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Heyerdahl.

La Balsa (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vital Alsar.

Living with Huacas: Reflecting on Community Relationships with the Archaeological site of Tumshukaiko (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda D. Brock Morales. Rosario Pajuelo Montes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Oral History, Coloniality, and Community Collaboration in Latin America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological sites are dynamic spaces that continue to be modified and transformed from their initial construction through the present by their contemporary environments and communities who engage with them. As such, these sites possess a significance that transcends archaeological interpretations of...