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New Technologies for Archaeology

Multidisciplinary Investigations in Palpa and Nasca, Peru

Part of the book series: Natural Science in Archaeology (ARCHAEOLOGY)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
  2. Introduction – New Methods and Technologies of Natural Sciences for Archaeological Investigations in Nasca and Palpa, Peru

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Geoarchaeology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
    2. Built on Sand: Climatic Oscillation and Water Harvesting During the Late Intermediate Period

      • Bertil Mächtle, Bernhard Eitel, Gerd Schukraft, Katharina Ross
      Pages 39-46
  4. Geophysics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Quantum Detection Meets Archaeology – Magnetic Prospection with SQUIDs, Highly Sensitive and Fast

      • Sven Linzen, Volkmar Schultze, Andreas Chwala, Tim Schüler, Marco Schulz, Ronny Stolz et al.
      Pages 71-85
    3. The Field of Sherds: Reconstructing Geomagnetic Field Variations from Peruvian Potsherds

      • Florian Stark, Roman Leonhardt, Jörg W.E. Fassbinder, Markus Reindel
      Pages 103-116
  5. Bioarchaeology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
    2. 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

      • Peter Horn, Stefan Hölzl, Susanne Rummel, Göran Åberg, Solveig Schiegl, Daniela Biermann et al.
      Pages 173-192

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Aus den Rezensionen: “... eine umfangreiche Darstellung über sämtliche Forschungen ... Ein internationales Team unter Federführung von Markus Reindel hat die unterschiedlichsten Aspekte untersucht und dadurch eine Vielzahl von neuen und teilweise überraschenden Ergebnissen gewonnen. ... Die am Ende des Buches stehende Zusammenfassung ... bietet so eine hervorragende Quintessenz der jahrelangen aufwändigen Untersuchungen. ... Das Buch ist natürlich sehr wissenschaftlich gehalten (und vollständig in englischer Sprache publiziert) - insofern verlangt dieser Band geradezu einen Nachfolger: ein in deutsch geschriebenes Sachbuch für den interessierten Laien.“ (in: AmerIndian Research, 2010, Vol. 5/1, Issue 15, S. 66)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Kommission für Archäologie, Außereuropäischer Kulturen(KAAK), 53173 Bonn, Germany

    Markus Reindel

  • Geographisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

    Günther A. Wagner

About the editors

Markus Reindel is an archaeologist specialized in South American and Mesoamerican cultures. He earned his Ph. D. degree at the University of Bonn in Germany. He carried out archaelogical fieldwork in northern Peru, on the coast of Ecuador, in Yucatan, Mexiko and again in Peru, where he is engaged in the investigation of the Nasca culture during the last ten years.

Günther A. Wagner directed the Research Group of Archaeometry, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, situated at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, and was at the same time professor for geology at the University of Heidelberg. After his retirement in 2006 he joined the Department of Geography. In 1999 he became the first president of the German Archaeometric Society. He is member of the German Archaeological Institute. He has authored/coauthored several books and numerous articles. He acted as Managing Editor of the journal ‘Archaeometry’ and still is Editor of the series ‘Natural Science in Archaeology’. His research topics are archaeochronometry, archaeometallurgy and geoarchaeology.

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