Machu Picchu in context: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of human past

Masini N.; Ziółkowski M.; Bastante J.M. · Machu Picchu in Context: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Human Past (2022) · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92766-0

Resumen

This book aims at integrating archaeology with science in order to provide additional information with respect to a traditional archaeological anthropological perspective. It sheds light on Incan culture, the relation between human frequentation and environmental changes, the Incan architecture in relation with Andean cosmovision using, for the first time, diverse technological and scientific approaches including LiDAR remote sensing, geophysics and radio carbon dating. A number of recent studies conducted by Polish, Italian and Peruvian scientific missions in Machu Picchu, Chachabamba and Cusco are presented and discussed. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022. All rights reserved.