New Technologies for Archaeology

– New Methods and Technologies of Natural Sciences for Archaeological Investigations in Nasca and Palpa, Peru.- – New Methods and Technologies of Natural Sciences for Archaeological Investigations in Nasca and Palpa, Peru.- Geoarchaeology.- Man and Environment in the Eastern Atacama Desert (Southern Peru): Holocene Climate Changes and Their Impact on Pre-Columbian Cultures.- Built on Sand: Climatic Oscillation and Water Harvesting During the Late Intermediate Period.- Geophysics.- Beneath the Desert Soil – Archaeological Prospecting with a Caesium Magnetometer.- Quantum Detection Meets Archaeology – Magnetic Prospection with SQUIDs, Highly Sensitive and Fast.- Viewing the Subsurface in 3D: Sediment Tomography for (Geo-)Archaeological Prospection in Palpa, Southern Peru.- The Field of Sherds: Reconstructing Geomagnetic Field Variations from Peruvian Potsherds.- Bioarchaeology.- From Hunters to Regional Lords: Funerary Practices in Palpa, Peru.- Talking Bones: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Individuals from Palpa.- Who Were the Nasca? Population Dynamics in Pre-Columbian Southern Peru Revealed by Ancient DNA Analyses.- 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.- The Nasca and Their Dear Creatures – Molecular Genetic Analysis of Pre-Columbian Camelid Bones and Textiles.- Archaeochronometry.- Of Layers and Sherds: A Context-Based Relative Chronology of the Nasca Style Pottery from Palpa.- The Clock in the Corn Cob: On the Development of a Chronology of the Paracas and Nasca Period Based on Radiocarbon Dating.- Cold Light from the Sediments of a Hot Desert: How Luminescence Dating Sheds Light on the Landscape Development of the Northeastern Atacama.- Light Thrown onHistory – The Dating of Stone Surfaces at the Geoglyphs of Palpa Using Optically Stimulated Luminescence.- Geomatics.- Virtual Archaeology – New Methods of Image-Based 3D Modeling.- Virtual Flight Over the Nasca Lines – Automated Generation of a Photorealistically Textured 3D Model of the Pampa de Nasca.- Context Matters: GIS-Based Spatial Analysis of the Nasca Geoglyphs of Palpa.- A Model Helicopter Over Pinchango Alto – Comparison of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Aerial Photogrammetry.- Perspectives and Contrasts: Documentation and Interpretation of the Petroglyphs of Chichictara, Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Image-Based 3D Modeling.- Pottery Plotted by Laser – 3D Acquisition for Documentation and Analysis of Symmetry of Ancient Ceramics.- Archaeometallurgy.- Gold in Southern Peru? Perspectives of Research into Mining Archaeology.- Fingerprints in Gold.- Summary.- Life at the Edge of the Desert – Archaeological Reconstruction of the Settlement History in the Valleys of Palpa, Peru.