Première évaluation Paléoépidémiologique d’une série ostéoarchéologique de la côte centrale Péruvienne : le site d’Ancón 1 by Claudi M. Rojas-Sepúlveda, Olivier Dutour

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Integrating paleoparasitological, paleogenetic, and archaeological data to understand the paleoecological scenario of pre-Columbian archaeological site Gruta do Gentio II, Brazil by Ludmila Gurjão, Lorrayne Brito, Ondemar Dias, Jandira Neto, Alena Mayo Iñiguez

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Caractérisation physico-chimique de pigments de peintures murales mochica : San José de Moro (viiie-xe siècles apr. J.-C.) by Nicola Sardos, Nino Del-Solar-Velarde, Rémy Chapoulie, Luis Jaime Castillo Butters

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Chronologie mochica : une nouvelle synthèse by Nino Del Solar, Rémy Chapoulie, Luis Jaime Castillo

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Urcid Serrano Javier, Zapotec hieroglyphic writing, Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, n° 34, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., 2001, 487 p. by Michel Davoust

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The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl: looking beneath the surface by Jane MacLaren Walsh

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Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar by Lois Marie Jaeck

“…In the three short stories to be examined, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar incorporate Pre-Columbian beliefs and customs into colonial and post-colonial Latin American reality. …”
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The analysis of Eric von Rosen’s archaeological collection (Etnografiska museet, Sweden): the contribution of the Swedish Chaco-Cordillera Expedition to the study of mining and met... by María Florencia Becerra

“…Besides the analysis performed by Eric von Rosen in 1902-1903, no further in-depth studies of the collection had been since carried out, despite its great potential to elucidate different aspects of the Andean and lowlands’ pre-Columbian past. Combining the analysis of the publications made by the members of the expedition and their unpublished personal documentation, as well as the study of the collection itself, this paper aims to offer new data on these findings and show the contribution that these materials, and the interpretations the Swedish researchers formulated about them, made to the understanding of the metallurgy and mining activities developed during the pre-Columbian Late Period (AD 1200-1550) in the Puna of Jujuy, Argentina.…”
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La première maison d’Amazonie. Le Formatif dans la province de Pastaza, Équateur by Stéphen Rostain, Geoffroy de Saulieu

“…The interdisciplinary project entitled « Zulay, the pre-Columbian portal to the Amazon », in the upper valley of the Pastaza (Ecuadorian Amazon), has led to the discovery and extensive excavation of the remains of a late Formative house, dated cal. 1496-1302 BC. …”
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Les paysages de champs surélevés de Guyane française : un patrimoine bioculturel menacé by Stéphen Rostain, Doyle McKey

“…The coastal savannas of the Guianas harbor extensive areas covered with vestiges of pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture. Recent studies have shown their value in documenting the history of human occupation and environments in the region. …”
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Approche expérimentale de la navigation précolombienne dans les Antilles by Benoît Bérard, Jean-Yves Billard, Thierry L’Etang, Guillaume Lalubie, Costantino Nicolizas, Bruno Ramstein, Emma Slayton

“…Understanding the navigation capacities of the Eastern Caribbean pre-Columbian population is crucial for the community working in the Antilles. …”
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La organización social de los mazahuas del Estado de México

“…This group posits their cosmological bases on a cultural matrix dating back to pre columbian and colonial times. Notwithstanding the presence of that cultural matrix, the communities manifest different kinds of social organization that the author perceives as having evolved as a consequence of the destructuration of the system of kinship. …”
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Proceso de recolección y comercialización de hongos comestibles silvestres en el Valle de Toluca, México

“…In Mexico, human consumption of edible fungi has occurred since the time of the Pre Columbian cultures. Historians of the sixteenth century and beyond have described the use of fungi as well as the manner in which they were classified. …”
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Terrasses aux mosaïques de Choqek’iraw, Pérou. Description générale et premières interprétations by Patrice Lecoq

“…We conclude this paper by suggesting that some of the scenes depicted might have been inspired by pre-Columbian myths and might be linked to astronomical concepts.…”
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Le laser comme moyen de dégagement de produits de corrosion sur un objet archéologique : le cas de la dorure sur alliage cuivreux by Valentine Brodard

“…The tests have been done on gilded copper samples prepared after two pre-Columbian masks. The results prove that lasers don’t permit the removal of corrosion products without damage on the gilded surface. …”
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Tamactún-Acalán: interpretación de una hegemonía política maya de los siglos xiv-xvi by Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo

“…The anthropological studies that analyze the political-territorial structure of the ancient Maya in Pre-columbian times usually highlight the existence of deep transformations between Classic and Post-classic periods. …”
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Making the most of grasslands and heathlands by Doyle McKey

“…Techniques and systems that have long been studied independently—soil burning in grassland and heathland agriculture throughout the world, historical plaggen cultivation in northern European heathlands, and raised-field agriculture in present-day Africa and New Guinea and pre-Columbian South America—appear on closer inspection to be variants on a common theme. …”
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