Editors:
- Includes outstanding articles on the Nasca culture from scientific, archeological, and anthropologic perspectives
- Presents the latest insights and interpretations of the Nasca lines and geoglyphs
- Offers a bird’s-eye view of the Nazca civilization, presenting settlement patterns, environmental adaptation strategies, and site discovery
- Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic title for 2017
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book presents outstanding chapter contributions on the Nasca culture in a variety of artistic expressions such as architecture, geoglyphs, ceramics, music, and textiles.
The approach, based on the integration of science with archaeology and anthropology, sheds new light on the Nasca civilization. In particular the multidisciplinary character of the contributions and earth observation technologies provide new information on geoglyphs, the monumental ceremonial architecture of Cahuachi, and the adaptation strategies in the Nasca desert by means of sophisticated and effective aqueduct systems. Finally, archaeological looting and vandalism are covered.
This book will be of interest to students, archaeologists, historians, scholars of Andean civilizations, scientists in physical anthropology, remote sensing, geophysics, and cultural heritage management.
Reviews
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2017
“This important book is a massive English summary of the work re-creating 10,000 years of human habitation of the Nasca area … . This volume must be on the shelves of every archaeologist working in Peru and in every research library covering the origins of pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas. Each chapter is illustrated with polychrome photos and supported by its own bibliography. Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries.” (D. L. Browman, Choice, Vol. 54 (12), August, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
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National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Archaeological and Monumental Heritage (IBAM), Potenza, Italy
Rosa Lasaponara
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National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA), Potenza, Italy
Nicola Masini
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Centro Italiano Studi e Ricerche Archeologiche Precolombiane (CISRAP), Brescia, Italy
Giuseppe Orefici
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ancient Nasca World
Book Subtitle: New Insights from Science and Archaeology
Editors: Rosa Lasaponara, Nicola Masini, Giuseppe Orefici
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47052-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47050-4Published: 27 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83649-2Published: 19 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47052-8Published: 20 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 670
Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations, 286 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Geology, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Physical Geography, Anthropology, Earth System Sciences