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Human occupations of mountain environments
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2016-05)
This special issue of Quaternary International concerns the Human Occupations in Mountain Environments (hereafter HOME). This topic gives the name of one of the commissions of the International Union of Prehistoric and ...
Practical spirituality and sacred mountains
(Ghandi Peace Foundation, 2015)
This paper has three parts. The first part will summarise two decades of personal research in the fields of high altitude archaeology and anthropology of sacred mountains and provide an overview of the multiplicity of ways ...
Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains: A study of the world´s highest archaeological sites
(Universidad de California. Instituto Cotsen de Arqueología, 2010)
The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perform them on mountains over 20,000 feet high. ...
Inca Mountaintop Shrines and Glaciers in the high Andes
(Equinox Publishing, 2018-01)
This paper offers a summary of several years of high altitude archaeological investigations that I have undertaken in the South American Andes, focusing on the strategies used by the Inca civilization to choose Andean peaks ...
Between mountains and glacial valleys. archaeology in the mountain ranges of the central strip of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)
(Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques, 2021-01)
Studies about mobility, management of biotic and abiotic resources, exchange of material goods, ideas and information in hunter-gatherer societies, are a fundamental basis in order to discuss the socio-cultural dynamics ...
Practical spirituality and a journey with sacred mountains
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
The industrialized western civilization has been trained to look at mountains merely in connection to the resources that they offer to the humans: the various minerals, the glaciers as reservoirs of water, the forested ...
Human occupations in the mountains of central Tierra del Fuego: an archaeological appoach
(Museo delle Scienze, 2013-07)
The aim of this paper is to inform about the results of archaeological investigations carried out up to now in the central strip of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, the main island of the fuegian archipelago. The central ...
Ritual as interaction with non-humans: Pre-Hispanic mountain pass shrines in the Southern Andes
(University Press of Colorado, 2017)
A key theoretical debate in archaeology and other social sciences today concerns the notion that, in practice, agency is a faculty that can be displayed by non-human beings which, depending on worldview and context, may ...
Realm of the Ice-cloaked Mountain Gods : high in the Andes hope is melting away
(The Explorers Club, 2007-12)
For centuries, if not millennia, people of the Andes have venerated their ice-capped mountains, which harbor within their glaciers the sacred waters upon which all life in the region is dependent. It is a tradition evident ...
Erfahrungsbericht einer Wissenschaftlerin: Jenseit der 5000 meter
(wbg Theiss, 2021)
This chapter on high altitude archaeology above 5000 meters (translated to German) is included in the first compiled volume on Glacial Archaeology, with contributions by scholars from Europe, North America, Latin America ...