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Incas --- Inca architecture. --- Incas --- Incas --- Architecture inca --- Incas --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Rites et cérémonies --- Peru --- Andes Region --- Pérou --- Andes --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Antiquités

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From stone for building to metal ores for ceremonial display, extracting mineral resources from the earth played a central role in ancient Andean civilizations. Despite this, the sites that supported these activities have rarely been a source of interest to archaeologists, and comparative analysis between mines and quarries and their features has been exceedingly rare. Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes focuses on the primary extraction of a variety of materials that, in many cases, were used by cultures like the Inca, Wari and Tiwanaku in well-studied sites. The book delves into the broader mining practices that link diverse materials for a fascinating tour of the social and economic life of the prehispanic period, and of ancient technologies, some of which are still in use. Through the politics of the societies, the practical engineering issues of mineral extraction, and the symbolic nature of the locations, readers are given a broader context of mining and quarrying than is usually seen in the literature. Here, too, is a wide variety of sites, materials, and time periods, including: Technological and social aspects of obsidian procurement focusing on the Quispisisa source. Variation in Inca building stone quarry operations in Ecuador and Peru. Clay and temper mining practices in the Lake Titicaca Basin. Pigment extraction from Chile to southern Peru from the early Holocene through the Early Intermediate Period. The Huarhua rock salt mine: archaeological implications of contemporary salt extraction practices. Later pre-Hispanic (including Inca) mining with consideration of technical, ceremonial and political context. Shifts in architectural stone quarrying during state expansion at Tiwanaku Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes will find an interested audience among archaeologists, geologists, anthropologists, historians, researchers studying Latin America, and scholars in the physical sciences with an interest in the history of mining and how mining is embedded in the wider social realm.  .

Quarries and quarrying --- History. --- Andes --- Lithic source areas --- Quarrying --- Rock quarries --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes --- Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric -- Andes. --- Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric --- Quarries and quarrying, Prehistoric --- Metallurgy & Mineralogy --- Social sciences. --- Mineral resources. --- Anthropology. --- Archaeology. --- Social Sciences. --- Mineral Resources. --- Rock excavation --- Stone industry and trade --- Deposits, Mineral --- Mineral deposits --- Mineral resources --- Mines and mining --- Mining --- Natural resources --- Geology, Economic --- Minerals --- Human beings --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Andes Region --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Antiquities. --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Andean region --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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Climate Change and Water Governance presents the results of several years’ research focusing on adaptive capacity and water governance in two widely-separated regions of the globe, namely the Swiss Alps and the Chilean Andes. The two regions share many similarities in hydrology and water resources: shifting precipitation patterns, highly variable winter snow pack and receding glaciers, resulting in changing seasonality and amounts of runoff that will subtly modify water availability and water use. As climate change is likely to amplify trends in surface run-off, the author investigates whether adaptive capacity in these two regions is sufficiently robust to respond to a situation which has never been experienced to date. The book presents detailed case studies examining the Rhône Basin in the Canton Valais, Switzerland and the Aconcagua Basin in Valparaiso, Chile. In order to understand and assess the interplay of complex and interlinked environmental and socio-economic issues, the author looks beyond the technology, modelling, engineering and infrastructure associated with water resources management and climate change adaptation, to assess the decision-making environment within which water and adaptation policy and practices are devised and executed. Using these insights, the author introduces, tests and enhances an indicator framework for the assessment of adaptive capacity. The aim is to help readers better understand the adaptive processes that allow the regimes governing water resources to respond to new shocks and changes in the hydrological system, in order to build more resilient water governance systems that can bend, but not break, in the face of new and unexpected challenges.

Politics --- Meteorology. Climatology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Environmental planning --- Social geography --- milieukunde --- ruimtelijke ordening --- gletsjers --- milieu --- politiek --- klimaatverandering --- Chile --- Andes

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El presente libro reúne las intervenciones más destacadas del coloquio internacional Arqueología regional en la Amazonía Occidental: temáticas, resultados y políticas. El coloquio surgió como respuesta a una necesidad que se Ta venido sintiendo en el transcurso de los últimos 10 artos sobre el estado de las investigaciones arqueológicas efectuadas en la parte Occidental de la Amazonía de los países andinos. El problema real es la falta de intercambio de información básica sobre las pesquisas y los nuevos datos que se generan en la ceja de montaña. Los arqueólogos que trabajan en esta área reconocen el gran vacío que existe en la información regional sobre los avances alcanzados en la investigación de los países vecinos. Aunque las problemáticas que se enfocan en los distintos países de la región andina sean diferentes, todos concuerdan en que lo que se logra en un país, beneficia necesariamente al conocimiento y a las estrategias que se deberían implementar en la región. Una ciencia joven debe construirse con el aporte de todos sus actores y una perspectiva regional multiplica las oportunidades de avanzar a un ritmo más acelerado. La discusión de las políticas de investigación no sólo incumbe a los practicantes, sino sobre todo es una responsabilidad del Estado. Entre sus obligaciones sociales, éste debería plantear los objetivos y las problemáticas, trazar las estrategias y organizar sus recursos para lograr las metas que se pretende alcanzar La investigación debería regirse por un plan socializado y coherente que englobe el estudio, la conservación y la difusión de los recursos patrimoniales (naturales y culturales), pues sin estos pasos previos no es posible ponerlos en función social. Las políticas de estado deben guardar coherencia con el plan de gobierno y en materia patrimonial debe fijarse como objetivo a corto plazo la recuperación de la identidad ancestral y la construcción de un sentido de unidad dentro de la pluriculturalidad que caracteriza al Ecuador…

Arqueología. --- Archaeology. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Ecuador --- Andes Region --- Amazon River Valley --- Amazon Valley --- Amazonia --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Andean region --- Ėkvador --- Equador --- Equateur --- Republic of Ecuador --- República del Ecuador --- Indians of South America --- Colombia --- Andes --- arqueología --- sitio arqueológico --- paleobotánica --- investigación científica --- cerámica --- etnolingüística --- Perú --- antropología histórica --- patrimonio cultural

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Art from a Fractured Past is an interdisciplinary collection examining how Peruvians are representing, and attempting to make sense of, the violence of the 1980s and 1990s through art, including drawings, monuments, fiction, theater, and cinema.

Arts --- Collective memory in art. --- Political aspects --- Peru --- Politics and government --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Arts, Primitive --- History --- Andes --- Ayacucho --- Lima --- Retablo --- Sacsamarca District --- Shining Path