Cusco (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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Machu Picchu Site Survey with Optech ILRIS 3D (2005)

SENSORY DATA Angie Payne. Fredrick Limp.

Machu Picchu is a dramatic, UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site associated with the Incan Empire in Peru. Built in the 15th century, the site consists of 200 structures and hundreds of stone terraces constructed atop steep mountain ridges. The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST), University of Arkansas conducted high density surveys of Machu Picchu in 2005. CAST researchers completed a site-wide survey, which provides the user with a sense of what it is like to be at Machu...

The making and braking of Shipibo-Conibo ceramics (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only W R Deboer. D W Lathrap.

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...

The Maldive Mystery (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Heyerdahl.

A modern crafstman re-creates Peru's past pottery (1998)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria-Louise Sidoroff. Carol Mackey. David Wescott.

Moulded Chimu pottery from the north coast of Peru (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Cheetham. Ann Woods.

The musical instruments of the Incas (1903)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C W Mead.

Nahrung und Nahrungsgewinnung im vorspanischen Peru (1960)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans Horkheimer.

Neutron Activation Analysis of Ceramics from Peru

PROJECT Uploaded by: Matthew Boulanger

This project contains data on 166 ceramic specimens from various sites in Peru. The data were produced at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory between the late 1960s and mid 1970s. All of the specimens were provided to the laboratory from the collections of the Lowie Museum.

On the use of stone axe by the Amahuaca Indians of eastern Peru (1974)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Leonard Carneiro.

A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Food, Identity, and Culture Contact in the Middle Horizon Wari Empire, A.D. 600-1000 (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2016)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Biwer.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The goal of this project is to examine the relationship between food, identity, and culture contact in the context of imperial borderlands. More specifically, the proposed research uses ancient plant remains to address the role of food in the complex multi-directional social interactions between colonists and indigenous groups in the Wari Empire of the highlands of the Peruvian Andes....

Peru Ceramics: Chemical and Descriptive Data (2014)

DATASET Matthew Boulanger. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

This spreadsheet contains elemental abundances, descriptions, and archaeological contexts for the ceramic specimens analyzed by LBNL. Elemental abundances were determined using neutron activation analysis. All values are in parts per million (ppm). Zero (0) values indicate missing values. All descriptive and contextual data are derived from LBNL paper records. Coordinates of archaeological sites have been added when possible.

Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas (1877)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ephraim George Squier.

"Peru: Incidents and Exploration in the Land of the Incas" is E. George Squier's detailed account of his extensive travels in Peru and his investigation of many large archaeological sites during his appointment as US Commissioner to Peru in the mid-1860's. The main objective of Squier's work was, as he professed, to "illustrat[e] Inca civilization from its exisiting monuments" (Squier 1877: 4). The following excerpts from the book's introduction summarize Squier's accounts. "At that time a...

A Peruvian atlatl (2004)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John C. Whittaker. David Wescott.

Peruvian Ceramics: Photographs (2011)

IMAGE Matthew Boulanger. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

These images show the individual sherds from Peru analyzed by neutron activation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Photographs were taken at LBNL and scanned by the Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR. Individual files were named according to the official catalog numbers of each image assigned by the Graphic Arts Department at LBNL.

Planina Nazca bez záhad (2011)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jiří Sonnek.

The Nazca Plains without mysteries The author explains the pictures on the Nazca Plains as tended work areas, created while making ropes and nets. The adjacent pictures of animals and various symbols served as symbols of the groups of makers.

POLLEN, PHYTOLITH AND STARCH ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM PERNIL ALTO, PERU (2011)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pernil Alto is located on the Rio Grande in an arid coastal desert in Southern Peru. Water is supplied by rivers from the Andes. Ten pieces of groundstone that included mortars and a single stone bowl fragment were washed and the resulting particles were submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for analysis to determine what plants were ground using these tools.

Pottery firing in the Jequetepeque Valley (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria-Louise Sidoroff. David Wescott.

Pre-Columbian Spinning and Lloq'e yarn: an ethnographic analogy (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only A S Oakland.

The preferences for British earthenwares among 18th- and 19th-century Limeños: A perspective from the historical archaeology of the Casa Bodega y Quadra, Lima, Peru. (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Angel Fhon Bazan.

Archaeological research at the Casa Bodega y Quadra, located in the historic city-center of Lima, Peru, has recovered of a large number of colonial and republican-era artifacts, including pottery sherds of a variety of types and origins. A percentage of these ceramics correspond to British earthenwares. This material evidence reflects the intense and sustained trade between England and Peru that developed at the close of the 18th century and the 19th century. This study examines the...

The raft Lehi IV: 69 days adrift on the Pacific Ocean (1959)

DOCUMENT Citation Only DeVere Baker.

Riding the Reed ponies of Peru (2008)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Norm Kidder. Jan Southworth-Kidder.

Smelting of sulfide ores of copper in preconquest Peru (1959)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E R Caley. D T Easby.

Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua (2013)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Prudence Rice.

In this rich study of the construction and reconstruction of a colonized landscape, Prudence M. Rice takes an implicit political ecology approach in exploring encounters of colonization in Moquegua, a small valley of southern Peru. Building on theories of spatiality, spatialization, and place, she examines how politically mediated human interaction transformed the physical landscape, the people who inhabited it, and the resources and goods produced in this poorly known area. Space-Time...

Status-role-behavior database on 11 premodern societies

PROJECT Uploaded by: Paula Sabloff

Excel files describing all possible statuses and associated roles/behaviors for 10 premodern states (Aztec, Benin, Late Shang China, Old Kingdom Egypt, Mycenaean Greece, Protohistoric Hawaii, Inca, Old Babylonia, Late Classic Maya, and Zapotec) and 1 premodern society (Iceland).

STRATIGRAPHIC POLLEN ANALYSIS FOR THE PAREDONES SITE, HUACA PRIETA PROJECT, PERU (2010)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen samples were collected stratigraphically from Unidad 22 at the Paredones site in the Huaca Prieta project area, Peru. The Paredones site is located north of Huaca Prieta, between the Pacific Ocean and an ancient lagoon. This site did not exhibit the burning that characterized Huaca Preita.