Archaeology
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- Colombians Say Past in Peril
- From Boston Globe, the government has promoted a campaign to raise awareness among the population and law enforcement officials about the damage this illegal trade is doing to the country's cultural patrimony. (February 19, 2004)
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- Easter Island's End
- From Discover Magazine, in just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism.
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- Archaeological Investigations at Hacienda Zuleta
- A Late Period Caranqui Chiefdom in the Northern Highlands of Ecuador. Abstract Internet Archaeology 10.
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- Human settlements already existed in the Amazon Basin 4000 years ago
- An important discovery by IRD archaeologists reveals that, more than 4000 years ago, early Andean civilizations had become established in a tropical environment where they were not hitherto known to have existed. (July 23, 2003)
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- GIS Modeling of Archaeological Sites in the Raccoon River Greenbelt
- The Greenbelt GIS database was used for modeling 85 known prehistoric archaeological sites in a 208 square mile portion of the Greenbelt. The raster database included data on land cover, soils, elevation, and significant sites (plant, animal, historic, archaeologic, geologic, and hydrologic). Project abstract, screen captures, and bibliography.
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- Bruce Owen's Archaeology Research in Peru
- Picture gallery of archaeological ceramics. Selections from archaeological research papers by Bruce Owen, Ph.D. Anthropology, UCLA. Full browse able text, abstracts, references, and selected graphics presented at academic conferences.
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- Colca Valley Regional Survey
- This site describes the in-progress activities and preliminary findings of a systematic archaeological survey of the central portion of the Colca Valley and surrounding uplands of southern Peru
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- Inca's stone fitting
- A theory on how the Incas could have efficiently cut a stone (still on the ground) to fit perfectlty in a hole in a wall under construction
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- Mummy Trove Found in Peru
- From BBC, archaeologists discover thousands of mummies in a Lima shanty town dating from the last decades of the Inca civilization.
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- NOVA : Ice Mummies of the Inca
- NOVA Online presents an expedition to Peru in search of Incan mummies on Mt. Sara Sara.
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- Pachacamac Archaeological Project
- This site describes the ongoing archaeological research project at the site of Pachacamac, the precolumbian religious center, led by Izumi Shimada, Rafael Segura and Maria Rostworowski
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- Projet Ychsma - Ychsma Project
- This site describes the ongoing Ychsma Project, led by Peter Eeckhout, which has carried out archaeological field research at the site of Pachacamac, Peru.
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- Pukara Domestic Architecture Research Project
- Describes the archaeological research led by Elizabeth Klarich at the highland Peruvian center of Pukara.
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- The Ruins on the Inca Trail
- Brief notes on the main archaeological sites: Llaqtapata, Runkuraqay, Sayaqmarka, Inca Tunnel, Phuyupatamarka, Intipata, Wiñawayna, Intipunku, Machu Picchu. With photographs.
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- Ancient Inca Road in Desperate Need of Protection
- A preliminary study of the ancient highland road that linked the Inca Empire from southern Colombia to Central Chile, found that only 5 percent of the 8,500 km route is under some form of protection, and large sections of it have been lost entirely. (September 13, 2003)
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- Mass Human Sacrifice Unearthed in Peru
- From the New Scientist, ancient sacrificed remains of 200 fishermen have been excavated from a beach in Peru. (October 04, 2002)
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- Nine Gal Tavern
- The archaeology of a pre-Civil War tavern in east-central Illinois. A model for tracing the evolution of pioneer taverns is proposed in this paper by Lenville J. Stelle.
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- Dresden Codex
- Dating the eclipse table of the Dresden Codex, with solution of the correlation problem. Technical.