1 Introduction - New Methods and Technologies of Natural
Sciences for Archaeological Investigations in Nasca and
Palpa, Peru .................................................. 1
Markus Reindel and Günther A. Wagner
Part I Geoarchaeology
2 Man and Environment in the Eastern Atacama Desert
(Southern Peru): Holocene Climate Changes and Their
Impact on Pre-Columbian Cultures ............................ 17
Bernhard Eitel and Bertil Mächtle
3 Built on Sand: Climatic Oscillation and Water Harvesting
During the Late Intermediate Period ......................... 39
Bertil Mächtle, Bernhard Eitel, Gerd Schukraft and
Katharina Ross
Part II Geophysics
4 Beneath the Desert Soil - Archaeological Prospecting with
a Caesium Magnetometer ...................................... 49
Jörg W.E. Fassbinder and Tomasz H. Gorka
5 Quantum Detection Meets Archaeology - Magnetic Prospection
with SQUIDs, Highly Sensitive and Fast ...................... 71
Sven Linzen, Volkmar Schultze, Andreas Chwala, Tim
Schüler, Marco Schulz, Ronny Stolz and Hans-Georg Meyer
6 Viewing the Subsurface in 3D: Sediment Tomography for
(Geo-)Archaeological Prospection in Palpa, Southern Peru .... 87
Stefan Hecht
7 The Field of Sherds: Reconstructing Geomagnetic Field
Variations from Peruvian Potsherds ......................... 103
Florian Stark, Roman Leonhardt, Jörg W.E. Fassbinder and
Markus Reindel
Part III Bioarchaeology
8 From Hunters to Regional Lords: Funerary Practices in
Palpa, Peru ................................................ 119
Johny Isla Cuadrado
9 Talking Bones: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Individuals
from Palpa ................................................. 141
Elsa Tomasto Cagigao
10 Who Were the Nasca? Population Dynamics in Pre-Columbian
Southern Peru Revealed by Ancient DN A Analyses ............ 159
Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Susanne Hummel and Bernd Herrmann
11 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 ......................................... 173
Peter Horn, Stefan Hölzl, Susanne Rummel, Göran Ǻberg,
Solveig Schiegl, Daniela Biermann, Ulrich Struck and
Andreas Rossmann
12 The Nasca and Their Dear Creatures - Molecular Genetic
Analysis of Pre-Columbian Camelid Bones and Textiles ....... 193
Rebecca Renneberg, Susanne Hummel and Bernd Herrmann
Part IV Archaeochronometry
13 Of Layers and Sherds: A Context-Based Relative
Chronology of the Nasca Style Pottery from Palpa ........... 207
Niels Hecht
14 The Clock in the Corn Cob: On the Development of
a Chronology of the Paracas and Nasca Period Based on
Radiocarbon Dating ......................................... 231
Ingmar Unkel and Bernd Kromer
15 Cold Light from the Sediments of a Hot Desert: How
Luminescence Dating Sheds Light on the Landscape
Development of the Northeastern Atacama .................... 245
Annette Kadereit, Steffen Greilich, Clemens Woda and
Günther A. Wagner
16 Light Thrown on History - The Dating of Stone Surfaces at
the Geoglyphs of Palpa Using Optically Stimulated
Luminescence ............................................... 271
Steffen Greilich and Günther A. Wagner
Part V Geomatics
17 Virtual Archaeology - New Methods of Image-Based 3D
Modeling ................................................... 287
Armin Gruen
18 Virtual Flight Over the Nasca Lines - Automated
Generation of a Photorealistically Textured 3D Model of
the Pampa de Nasca ......................................... 307
Martin Sauerbier
19 Context Matters: GIS-Based Spatial Analysis of the Nasca
Geoglyphs of Palpa ......................................... 321
Karsten Lambers and Martin Sauerbier
20 A Model Helicopter Over Pinchango Alto - Comparison of
Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Aerial Photogrammetry ....... 339
Henri Eisenbeiss
21 Perspectives and Contrasts: Documentation and
Interpretation of the Petroglyphs of Chichictara, Using
Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Image-Based 3D Modeling ..... 359
Peter Fux, Martin Sauerbier, Thomas Kersten, Maren
Lindstaedt and Henri Eisenbeiss
22 Pottery Plotted by Laser - 3D Acquisition for
Documentation and Analysis of Symmetry of Ancient
Ceramics ................................................... 379
Hubert Mara
Part VI Archaeometallurgy
23 Gold in Southern Peru? Perspectives of Research into
Mining Archaeology ......................................... 393
Thomas Stöllner
24 Fingerprints in Gold ....................................... 409
Sandra Schlosser, Robert Kovacs, Ernst Pernicka, Detlef
Günther and Michael Tellenbach
Part VII Summary
25 Life at the Edge of the Desert - Archaeological
Reconstruction of the Settlement History in the Valleys
of Palpa, Peru ............................................. 439
Markus Reindel
References .................................................... 463
Index ......................................................... 505
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