Google Search within Quipu (examples): andean site:quipu.sdsu.edu "museo de" site:quipu.sdsu.edu

Andean Archaeology - General

Arqueología Andina y Tiwanaku

Página Portal a la Investigación Arqueologica en el Mundo Andino.
Visit: http://www.tiwanakuarcheo.net/index.html

Arqueología Ecuatoriana

Ecuadorian archaeology is the foundation of identity with milenary people's ancestral knowledge, successfull adaptation to different geographical zones, spiritual transcendency that Precolombian America knew. During the archaeological study interaction that has taken place between the inhabitants of different ecological regions of this andean and tropical Ecuador are highlighted. (site is extensive and under construction - needs editing)
Visit: http://www.arqueo-ecuatoriana.ec/home

Ancient Americas Events

created by Mike Ruggeri for Ancient Americas Lectures, Conferences and Exhibits.
Visit: website

Ciudad Virtual de Antropología y Arqueología

Es una web integrante de la Red NAyA, Noticias de Antropología y Arqueología. Very comprehensive coverage and growing.
Visit: http://www.equiponaya.com.ar

What is a QUIPU?

One of the earliest reference tools that kept Inca records of products and services and probably, census and tribute.
Visit: http://quipu.sdsu.edu/whatisit.shtml

Archaeometry

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Solar eclipse paths are available with world atlas map for the 2nd millennium and for previous centuries by lists of events giving latitude and longitude. Generally the Andes are 10-20'S and 70-80'W.
Visit: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearch.php

Archives and Indexes

AnthroHub

Available from UC-Berkeley Anthropology Department. Provides full text of articles in their University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnography, University of California Anthropological Records and Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers. Other searches will provide links to fulltext, but only if the user has campus access.
Visit: http://anthrohub.lib.berkeley.edu/

Archaeobios

Revista of the Centro de Investigaciones Arqueobiológicas y Paleoecológicas Andinas. Annual
Visit: http://www.arqueobios.org/en/

Bibliographica americana: revista interdisciplinaria de estudios coloniales.

recibe y difunde artículos inéditos, reseñas de libros, notas bibliográficas, anuncios de reuniones científicas y publicaciones recientes que abarcan múltiples aspectos de la cultura colonial americana entendida en sentido amplio.
Visit: Catálogo

Biodiversity Heritage Library [Preceeded by: Smithsonian contributions to anthropology, Preceeded by: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology]

Smithsonian contributions to anthropology. Washington :G.P.O.,1901-1971. Note: No.143 is the multi-volume set "Handbook of South American Indians" edited by Julian H. Steward.
Visit: Bulletins

Boletín de la Sociedad de Investigación del Arte Rupestre de Bolivia.

Lista de enlaces de red sobre el Arte Rupestre y arqueología.
Visit: www's enlaces

Chungará (Universidad de Tarapacá - Arica)

Chungará Revista de Antropología Chilena, su objetivo principal es difundir estudios originales, empíricos o teóricos, en antropología social o cultural, arqueología, bioarqueología, conservación, etnobotánica, etnohistoria, geografía, historia, lingüística, museología, paleoecología, semiótica, textilería, zooarqueología, referidos a la región andina de Sudamérica u otras zonas afines.
Visit: Números Anteriores

Dumbarton Oaks: Research Library and Collection

Digitized Rare Books: Access full digital facsimiles of select titles in the Rare Book Collection.
Visit: website

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú PUCP: Tesis en línea

la disponibilidad de tesis de la universidad en línea gracias a un software libre: Doctorado, Maestría, Licenciatura, Bachillerato, Segunda Especialidad.
Visit: Repositorio

RUPESTREWEB - index

Publicación electrónica especializada en la investigación del arte rupestre de América Latina
Contact: Diego Martínez Celis .
Visit: Index ARTÍCULOS POR PAÍS

Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) - Index for Latin America publications

a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals. SciELO was created to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries and provides an efficient way to increase visibility and access to scientific literature. Covers Latin America, Iberian Peninsula, South Africa. Wikipedia
Visit: Index to Latin America publications by country

University of California Archaeological Research Facility Publications (archival, open access)

Now offers three venues of open-access publications by associates of the facility such as Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Special Publications and ARF on eScholarship. AnthroHub archive hosts additional open access content from past publications by Berkeley archaeologists. These include the serials UC Archaeological Survey (1948-1972) and UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology (1903-1964).
Visit: http://arf.berkeley.edu/publications
Visit: AnthroHub

Artifact Images

Amiguet's Ancient Art: South America Collection

(save the images before they are lost)
Visit: http://www.amiguetancientart.com//PChome.html

Artnet.com - David Bernstein's Pre-Columbian Art

(save the images before they are lost)
Visit: http://www.artnet.com/galleries/

Christopher B. Donnan and Donna McClelland Moche Archive

Dumbarton Oaks is pleased to announce the donation of a major new scholarly archive of Pre-Columbian art, the Christopher B. Donnan and Donna McClelland Moche Archive. The Moche Archive was created by Professor Christopher B. Donnan over the course of nearly five decades, assembling materials that document the art and iconography of the Moche, an ancient South American people who inhabited river valleys in the arid coastal plain of northern Peru (ca. 100–ca. 850 CE).
Contact: icfa@doaks.org .
Visit: announcement

Corbis: The Place for Pictures Online

Visit: http://www.corbisimages.com/

Dumbarton Oaks Andean Art Gallery.

Slide sets are also available for ordering.
Visit: http://museum.doaks.org/IT_909?sid=761&x=204527&x=204528

U. S. State Department's

well illustrated artifact categories subject to import restrictions.
Visit: Country Menu at right

William Siegal Galleries:

auction house with authentic textiles/artifacts and also some fakes.
Visit: http://williamsiegal.com/

Blogs and Lists

Begin Blogs

try using Google's free Blogger site.
Visit: Blogger

eHow Tech site

Creating your own list or group email.
Visit: Group Emails

Lista Arqueologia Peruana

Created by: Daniel Castillo Benites, Administrador.
Contact: arqueologiadeperu@egrupos.net

Non-Professional Archaeological Photographs-project

The NPAPH-project has the aim to trace former students and volunteers who joined an excavation prior to the 1980s, to collect and digitize their photographic documentation, and, finally, to make it accessible to the public via digital archives. Furthermore, the project pleads for an international collaboration between archaeological institutions in order to connect these digital archives and bring them under the attention of the public by the use of this website.
The NPAPH research group is located at the Faculty of Education of the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in the Netherlands, and consists of lecturer and researcher Bart Wagemakers (coordinator) and students affiliated to the faculty. Trudy Jacoby, director of the Visual Resources Collection in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, is project advisor. If you have any questions or requests regarding the NPAPH-project, or if you want to join the project, please
Contact: Research Group .
Visit: NPAPH

Botany

Andean Botanical Information System (ABIS)

Floristic and systematic investigations of the flowering plants (phanerogams) of Andean South America. Hosted by Field Museum, Chicago.
Visit: http://www.sacha.org/main.htm

ARQUEOBIOS: Centro de Investigaciones Arqueobiológicas y Paleoecológicas Andinas

El objetivo principal es difundir, promover y crear redes de investigación en temas relacionados a la Arqueozoología, Arqueobotónica y temas evolutivos empleando la tecnología del ADN antiguo.
Visit: http://www.arqueobios.org/index.php/en/

International Potato Center

seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweetpotato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.
Visit: http://cipotato.org/

NewCROP [TM]

Hosted by Purdue University (Indiana), NewCROP provides windows to new and specialty crop profiles. Try the CropSEARCH engine using 'Andean'.
Visit: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/default.html

Waqanki Ecolodge

is a Private Conservation Reserve
Visit: Lodge

Lost Crops of the Incas Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation

Report of an Ad Hoc Panel of the Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council. National Academy of Science. 1989.
Visit: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=030904264X

QUIPU's Busqueda de Libros Gratuitos

Donate your books directly to graduate students and their department libraries or other appropriate research centers.
Visit: http://quipu.sdsu.edu/busquedalibros.shtml

Carbon Dating & Calibration

ANDES C-14

Radiocarbon Database for Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. Excellent archive for older dates; not yet comprehensive for last two decades.
Visit: http://andes-c14.arqueologia.pl/index.php

CALIB Radiocarbon Calibration, 8.2

Calibration program that calculates and generates graphs from servers at University of Washington and Queen's University of Belfast. Created by M. Stuiver, P.J. Reimer, and R. Reimer.
Visit: http://calib.org/calib/

Radiocarbon

is the main international journal of record for research articles and date lists relevant to 14C and other radioisotopes and techniques used in archaeological, geophysical, oceanographic, and related dating. UA archive provides access to Radiocarbon Volumes 1-54 (1959-2012). As of 2016, Radiocarbon is published by Cambridge University Press.
Visit: Radiocarbon Volumes 1-54 (1959-2012)

Visit: Radiocarbon as of 2016

Calibration curves as of 12 August 2020 - Supplemental Data

Visit: Radiocarbon 12 August 2020 SUPPLEMENTAL

Geochronometria

is aimed to integrate the scientists developing different methods of absolute chronology and using them in different fields of earth and other natural sciences and archaeology. Starting from Volume 26 it will be published in electronic form.
Visit: http://www.geochronometria.pl/

The Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU)

is a radiocarbon laboratory engaged in collaborative research across many disciplines where the measurement of the radiocarbon isotope is usefulThe OxCal program is intended to provide radiocarbon calibration and analysis of archaeological and environmental chronological information including OxCal.
Visit: OxCal 4.4

Radiocarbon Related Information Sources

presented by RADIOCARBON journal to provide labs, databases, searchable indexes, calibration computer programs and listserv discussions.
Visit: http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/

SHCal13 raw data sets

Visit: http://intcal.qub.ac.uk/shcal13/

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology (CSA)

Digital technology advice in mapping and imaging architectural features. Archive of computer-aided design (CAD) models.
Visit: http://ww.csanet.org/index.html

Ceramic Technology

Ceramic production in Tarica, Peru (1998)

Please note that several video documentaries on ceramic production are now posted on Vimeo.com and can be watched in full for free (search for Isabelle Druc). Of particular interest to Andeanists is the video about ceramic production in Tarica, Ancash, Peru
Contact: Isabelle Druc .
Visit: video

Conservation & Site Protections

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)

As the only national membership organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation of cultural material, the AIC plays a crucial role in establishing and upholding professional standards, promoting research and publications, providing educational opportunities, and fostering the exchange of knowledge among conservators, allied professionals, and the public.
Visit: About AIC

Archaeological Institute of America's Site Preservation Grant Program,

the AIA will now share the responsibility for safeguarding the world’s archaeological heritage by supporting the conservation of ancient monuments and the preparation of management plans for long-term maintenance of the cultural and physical landscapes of sites. Applications will be considered on a semiannual basis by a committee appointed by the AIA. The deadlines are October 1 and April 1, and grants will normally be awarded in the range of $25K-$75K. Past award winners may apply for new grants on a competitive basis.
Visit: https://www.archaeological.org/giving/sitepres

Art Loss Register

is the world's largest private international database of lost and stolen art, antiques and collectibles that provides recovery and search services to collectors, the art trade, insurers and law enforcement through technology and a professionally trained staff of art historians.
Visit: https://www.artloss.com/

Cultural Property Advisory Committee

undertakes ongoing review of an MOU with Peru that creates U.S. import restrictions for certain types of Peruvian cultural property. I am writing to request first-hand observations of archaeological site looting and thefts of colonial ecclesiastical material since June 2012. Photographs are particularly valuable. Information shared will remain confidential.
Please email reports including site location, date of observation, and a short description of the looting to: Allison Davis or call 202-632-6305 .
Visit: Bilateral agreements

Cusichaca Trust

model for rural development in the Peruvian Andes that restores often abandoned infrastructures.
Visit: Cusichaca Trust

Global Heritage Fund with its Global Heritage Network utilizing Google Earth

will showcase the challenges and the success stories and innovative solutions being used to save our priceless and irreplaceable heritage sites.
Visit: https://globalheritagefund.org/

Illicit Antiquities Research Center

established in May 1996 under the auspices of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge, England to monitor and report upon the detrimental effects of the international trade in illicit antiquities (i.e. antiquities which have been stolen or clandestinely excavated and illegally exported).
Visit: https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

an international non-governmental organization of professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites. Contact a country-specific representative from the web page "All national committees".
Visit: https://www.icomos.org/fr

National Archives (US)

Diverse information on preservation, conservation, storage, technical skills.
Visit: National Archives

Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute

scientists and conservators from a wide range of specialties perform research to extend our knowledge base of how materials change and deteriorate, to formulate recommendations for effective preservation strategies and to develop and test safe and effective conservation treatments.
Visit: SMCI

Trafficking Culture

University of Glasgow's project aims to produce an evidence-based picture of the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects. Click on "Data" section.
Contact: Contact .
Visit: Trafficking Culture

UNESCO: World Heritage Committee

Latin America and Caribbean listing by country that are under protective status.
Visit: https://en.unesco.org/

Cultural Property Advisory Committee Sessions
Visit: CPAC

World Monuments Fund/Watch

undertakes conservation, documentation, surveys, fieldwork, research, training, strategic planning, fundraising, and advocacy. Some funding available for specific preservation operations.
Visit: https://www.wmf.org/

Yachay Wasi

conservation, preservation and education of Peruvian cultural history.
Visit: https://www.yachaywasi.org/

Digitizing Databases

tDAR: The Digital Archaeologcial Record

Broadening the access to archaeological data through simple search and browse functionality. Uncover knowledge of the past, and preserve and protect archaeological resources.
Visit: tDAR

Non-Professional Archaeological Photographs-project

The NPAPH-project has the aim to trace former students and volunteers who joined an excavation prior to the 1980s, to collect and digitize their photographic documentation, and, finally, to make it accessible to the public via digital archives. Furthermore, the project pleads for an international collaboration between archaeological institutions in order to connect these digital archives and bring them under the attention of the public by the use of this website.
The NPAPH research group is located at the Faculty of Education of the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in the Netherlands, and consists of lecturer and researcher Bart Wagemakers (coordinator) and students affiliated to the faculty. Trudy Jacoby, director of the Visual Resources Collection in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, is project advisor. If you have any questions or requests regarding the NPAPH-project, or if you want to join the project, please
Contact: Research Group .
Visit: NPAPH

Open Context

Make your field documentation and data discoverable and searchable on the Web.Find artifact images for comparison, data for analysis. Learn how others describe their research.
Visit: website

Institute for Field Research - Training for Digitizing Data

provide students with a comprehensive understanding of digital workflows and methods in archaeology implemented by the most recent technologies.
Visit: Enroll Infor

Forensics:

Forensics: Colleges

Provides references to websites.
Visit: Websites

Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense

El Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense (EAAF) es una institución científica, no gubernamental y sin fines de lucro. Aplica metodologías y técnicas de diferentes ramas de las ciencias forenses para la investigación, búsqueda, recuperación, determinación de causa de muerte, identificación y restitución de personas desaparecidas.
Visit: https://eaaf.org/?lang=en

Humanitarian and Human Rights Resource Center (HHRRC)

Forensic Anthropology resources compiled by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Visit: https://www.aafs.org/research-insights-type-hhrrc/hhrrc-resources

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)

Provides consulting, software products and educational/training support.
Visit: http://www.esri.com/industries/archaeology/ and
Visit: http://www.esri.com/training/main

United States Geological Survey

Introduction and practical applications are well covered.
Visit: https://www.usgs.gov/science/science-explorer?term=445

Geology

Cornell Andes Project

Geological overview of tectonic processes.
Visit: https://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/cap/index.html

Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Geólogos

Es una institución sin finalidad lucrativa creada para la defensa y apoyo de los intereses de los Geólogos.
Visit: https://cgeologos.es/

INGEMMET

Instituto Geológico Minero y Metalúrgico es encargada de preparar y proveer información sobre geologyía regional.
Visit: https://www.gob.pe/ingemmet

International Association for Obsidian Studies

South American obsidian sources as well as source catalog for worldwide resources.
Visit: https://www.deschutesmeridian.com/IAOS/index.html

United States Geological Society

Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World: South America. USGS Professional Paper 1386-I
Visit: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1386I

Glossaries

Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI)

Resultado de mas de tres decadas consagradas a la traduccion y escritura de textos sobre antropologia, arqueologia, arquitectura prehispanica, etnologia, artes populares, arte prehispanico, historia, arqueologia historica, viajes y viajeros, herencia cultural, preservacion, conservacion y restauracion en America Latina. The following link specifically goes to Christiane Clados's Nasca Drawings Collection.
Visit: http://www.famsi.org/research/nasca/index.html

Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Geólogos

Es una institución sin finalidad lucrativa creada para la defensa y apoyo de los intereses de los Geólogos.
Visit: https://cgeologos.es/

Hydrology and Underwater Archaeology

ANDEAN CENTRE OF UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY – ACUA (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Proyecto Huiñaimarca (PH13). Underwater excavation of the smaller sub-basin of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. A particular interest in the lake has rapidly arisen among the scientific community because data from limnology and sedimentology could be key features in the comprehension of the coastal occupation. Indeed, a global understanding of the culture which was living in this area necessarily includes a good understanding of the underwater heritage present into the lake.
Contact: cdelaere@ulb.ac.be .
Visit: Introduction

Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA)

The ACUA serves as an international advisory body on issues relating to underwater archaeology, conservation, and submerged cultural resources management.
Visit: https://acuaonline.org/

Laws & Regulations - always search for current updates

Colegio de Arqueólogos del Perú (COARPE)

El Colegio Profesional de Arqueólogos del Perú, creado por Ley N. 24575 y cambiado por Ley N. 29565 adentro Ministerio de Cultura en 2010.
Visit: Website

Ministerio de Cultura (PERU)

Formulamos y establecemos estrategias de promoción cultural de manera inclusiva y accesible para fortalecer la identidad cultural. Visit: https://www.gob.pe/cultura/

Ministerio de Cultura y Turismo (BOLIVIA)

El Ministerio de Culturas, Descolonización y Despatriarcalización es la entidad estatal rectora de la generación, implementación y supervisión de políticas públicas de recuperación, protección, preservación, restauración, promoción, socialización y valoración de las culturas y expresiones artísticas de los pueblos y naciones indígena originario campesinos, comunidades interculturales de las ciudades y afro-bolivianos, así como de procesos de descolonización, despatriarcalización y revolución cultural para contribuir a la consolidación del Estado Plurinacional y el Vivir Bien, de acuerdo a lo establecido en la Constitución Política del Estado.
Visit: https://www.minculturas.gob.bo/

Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural (ECUADOR)

Creado mediante Decreto Supremo 2600 del 9 de junio de 1978 (Registro Oficial No. 618 de 29 de junio de 1978), el INPC es el encargado de investigar, conservar, preservar, restaurar, exhibir y promocionar el Patrimonio Cultural en el Ecuador; así como regular, de acuerdo a la ley, todas las actividades de esta naturaleza que se realicen en el país.
Visit: Info

El Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales (CMN) (CHILE)

es un organismo técnico del Estado que depende del Ministerio de Educación, y desde su creación en 1925, se encarga de la protección y tuición del patrimonio de carácter monumental. Realiza su labor en el marco de la Ley N° 17.288 de Monumentos Nacionales del año 1970 y del Reglamento sobre Excavaciones y Prospecciones Arqueológicas, Antropológicas y Paleontológicas dictado mediante Decreto Supremo N° 484 de 1970.
Visit: El Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural fue creado mediante Decreto Supremo Nro. 2600 del 9 de junio de 1978. Actualmente se encuentra adscrito al Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio.

Maps / Map Making

Cartographers’ Guild: forum for cartography enthusiasts

a place where every aspect of cartography can be admired, examined, learned, and discussed. Our membership consists of professional designers and artists, hobbyists, and amateurs—all are welcome to join and participate in the quest for cartographic skill and knowledge.
Visit: Info

Maps for the world

Includes old maps by Russian and US armies. Click on country of choice to begin. Also use Google search engine in upper right corner.
Visit: https://www.mapsofworld.com

Map Maker

Desktop mapping software.
Visit: https://www.mapmaker.com/

MAPA DE ARTE RUPESTRE DE AMERICA LATINA

con localización aproximada y referencias a articulos de más de 200 sitios publicados en RUPESTREWEB.
Visit: https://www.rupestreweb.info/mapa.html

INGEMMET

Instituto Geológico Minero y Metalúrgico es encargada de preparar y proveer información sobre geología regional. Instituto Geológico Minero y Metalúrgico es encargada de preparar y proveer información sobre geología regional.
Visit: https://www.gob.pe/ingemmet

Instituto Geográfico Nacional (formerly Instituto Geográfico Militar)

El Instituto Geográfico Nacional es la institución pública que realiza actividades de levantamiento cartográfico.
Visit: https://www.ign.es/ign/main/index.do

University of Texas - Austin. Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

Excellent source for topographic, city and thematic maps.
Visit: https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas.html
For historic maps of South America visit: UT Historic Maps

Palynology

Latin American Pollen Database

The LAPD is currently managed by Suzette G.A. Flantua from the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam and includes data from stratigraphic contexts and from modern surface samples from the Central-America, the Caribbean and South-America. From a total of 29 countries, the LAPD now counts over 1100 pollen sites.
Visit: Database

Asociacion Latino Americana de Paleobotanica y Palinologia

está realizando el Banco de Datos de Palinología y Paleobotánica del Perú.
Visit: https://www.ufrgs.br/alpp/siteespanhol/index.htm

Rock Art

MAPA DE ARTE RUPESTRE DE AMERICA LATINA

con localización aproximada y referencias a articulos de más de 200 sitios publicados en RUPESTREWEB.
Visit: https://www.rupestreweb.info/mapa.html

Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic Database

The Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database compiles literature about rock art into a searchable, online bibliography, providing free access to more than 40,000 citations.
Contact: Leigh Marymor .
Visit: https://musnaz.org/rock_art_studies_db/

Sociedad de Investigacion del Arte Rupestre de Bolivia (SIARB)

A private scientific institution, SIARB (founded in 1987) to registers, records and publishes rock art sites. SIARB publishes an annual international journal, Boletín (registered in Latindex), and the series Contribuciones al Estudio del Arte Rupestre Sudamericano (Spanish with English summaries). .
Visit: https://siarb-bolivia.org

Satellite Imagery / LIDAR (Light Imaging, Detection, and Ranging)

Glaciers of the World (first posted 2010)

USGS Satellite Image Atlas by Jane Ferrigno.
Visit: info
Visit: South American glaciers

Google Earth

Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Visit: https://www.google.com/

LIDAR News: Home of the LiDAR Industry

Begin by clicking on the Menu bars.
Visit: info

LiDAR USA

has created ScanLook Revolution that weighs just over 1kg and costs around $30,000 to $40,000 such that many archeology organizations can afford to purchase their own system - and even the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) to carry it airborne!
Visit: info

GIS Geography

FREE LiDAR Data sources: USGS Earth Explorer, Open Topography, United States Interagency Elevation Inventory, NOAA Digital Coast, LIDAR Online, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). LIDAR Online provides a directory of LIDAR companies by country.
Visit: Info

Space Archaeology: Seeing the Past Through a New Perspective

National Geographic Fellow Sarah Parcak, winner of the $1 million TED Prize—awarded annually to a leader with a fresh, bold vision for sparking global change—is creating a cutting-edge platform that uses citizen science to find and preserve archaeological sites around the world. Satellite imagery taken from 724 kilometers (450 miles) above the Earth will be provided to archaeology lovers across the globe, enabling them to explore new sites and identify sites currently threatened by development, looting, and climate change. This innovative new platform, called Global Xplorer, is scheduled to launch in Peru in late 2016.
Visit: NatGeo's Sarah Parcak site
Visit: Globalxplorer (join)
Visit: Facebook

Wikipedia Lidar#Archaeology

Lidar has many applications in the field of archaeology including aiding in the planning of field campaigns, mapping features beneath forest canopy, and providing an overview of broad, continuous features that may be indistinguishable on the ground.[27] Lidar can also provide archaeologists with the ability to create high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) of archaeological sites that can reveal micro-topography that are otherwise hidden by vegetation.
Visit: info

Zoom Earth

Displays daily updated imagery from NASA.
Visit: Ayacucho, Peru

Sustainability Projects

Agua y Arena: Una Travesía por el Desierto de Atacama

El documental científico llama la atención sobre la necesidad de cambiar gradual, pero radicalmente, las malas prácticas en la relación entre los seres humanos y los ecosistemas del Desierto de Atacama, con especial referencia al agua.
Contact: .
Visit: Youtube

Alliyma Yarn

As a cultural sustainability program, all proceeds from Alliyma yarn sales go to fund Quechua Benefit , an organization that works to break the cycle of poverty through Economic Empowerment, Education, and Preventative Medicine to greatly improve the lives of the Quechua people who produce this fiber.
Visit: Chacaconiza yarn
Visit: Nunoa yarn

Ayni Project Textiles, Inc.

A bridge between our community, our artisans and our global family. Handmade textiles from our weaver families in Ausangate, Chinchero, Q’ero, Lake Titicaca and other regions
Visit: Project website

Center for Social Well Being

Our program seeks to support public health campaigns throughout the valley to communicate the health and social implications of the issue of environmental contamination. By garnering support from neighboring municipalities, the aim is to confront the problem through orientation, information, and the creation of communication networks to share strategies, challenges and signs of progress. Coursework provides in-depth orientation to theory and practice in anthropological investigation that emphasizes methods in Participatory Action Research and Andean Ethnography centered on themes of Climate Change with respect to Health, Ecology, Agrobiodiversity, Education, Community Organization and related topics. Students have the opportunity to actively engage in ongoing investigations in local agricultural communities to develop effective field research techniques, and to acquire language skills. In addition, the program provides excursions to museums and archaeological sites.
Visit: Info

Chijnaya Foundation

works in partnership with rural communities in Southern Peru to design and implement self-sustaining projects in health, education, and economic development. By providing humanitarian, technical, and development assistance to communities in the Andean highlands of Southern Peru, the Foundation is able to administer grants and loans, technical expertise, and research in agriculture, health, small industry, traditional crafts, housing, and community services, all focused on improving the cultural and economic well-being of indigenous Andean people.
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Global Heritage Fund with its Global Heritage Network utilizing Google Earth

will showcase the challenges and the success stories and innovative solutions being used to save our priceless and irreplaceable heritage sites.
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Visit: Chavín de Huántar

Quechua Benefit

is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1996. For the past 23 years, its mission has been to listen to and empower Peru's highland Quechua people. Working primarily in the Colca valley and high puna regions, it's team has developed three pillars that, with your help, will break the cycle of poverty: economic empowerment, education, and preventative medicine.
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ESCALA Initiative (Escuela de Negocios para la Conservación y Avance de Latino América)

Our mission is to empower disadvantaged entrepreneurs and artisans - the majority of whom are women - living in poverty around the world. We provide basic business education and give people the tools to build the future they want for themselves, their families, and their communities.
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Textile Research

Alliyma Yarn

As a cultural sustainability program, all proceeds from Alliyma yarn sales go to fund Quechua Benefit , an organization that works to break the cycle of poverty through Economic Empowerment, Education, and Preventative Medicine to greatly improve the lives of the Quechua people who produce this fiber.
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Building the Khipu Field Guides IKFG) Database

The acronym KFG refers to this Khipu Field Guide database. Some of the KFG database was derived from data in the Harvard Khipu Database, often referred to as the KDB, a collection of khipu measurements from various authors, cataloged, and then converted into Excel files and a subsequent SQL database. Consequently, it is important to note this: The Khipu Field Guide (KFG) database is not a copy of the Harvard KDB. Although some data in the KFG is extracted from the KDB,and then vetted, cleansed and normalized, the KFG is a larger collection of khipu measurements and reference information, created from multiple sources
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Khipu Patrimony of Rapaz, Peru

A collaborative project brings peruvian and international scientists together with the villagers of Rapaz to protect and study the "Khipu House" and its priceless patrimony.

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Choose 'Curatorial area' and then 'Art of the Ancient Americas' or 'Costume and Textiles' and then search Peru. Search engine is not very useful for narrowing the results.
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Translation Services

Ediciones Rafael Valdez

offers professional publishing services for academic, literary, and scholastic projects. Our products include fiction, non-fiction, and coffee table books, reports, catalogues, theses, magazines, and articles, among others. [brinda servicios de edición para proyectos editoriales de carácter académico, literario y escolar. La gama de los productos a los que se dirige nuestro trabajo comprende libros, informes, libros de mesa, catálogos, tesis, revistas, artículos, informes, entre otros.]
https://edicionesrafaelvaldez.com/es/

Westwood Press

is an independent publishing house headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Anthropologists by training, university teachers by trade, editors by choice, and students by nature, we seek works that draw from the humanities and social sciences (non-fiction or fiction). We also specialize in professional/academic translation and editing in Spanish and English for publication.
https://www.westwoodpress.com/