Some of the earliest Andean populations settled in the region's arid coastal river valleys,
supported by abundant marine life despite having domesticated plant cultigens as early …

This book presents outstanding chapter contributions on the Nasca culture in a variety of
artistic expressions such as architecture, geoglyphs, ceramics, music, and textiles. The …

The meter-scale ground resolution of TerraSAR-X spotlight images promises for the first time
the 3-D detection of landforms and landform changes on the microrelief scale from a satellite …

In this chapter, we provide an overview on the state of the art of the investigations conducted
up to now on the ancient Nasca filtration galleries, locally known as puquios. They are …

Irrigation agriculture has been heralded as the solution to feeding the world's growing
population. To this end, irrigation agriculture is both extensifying and intensifying in arid …

Irrigation agriculture represents an ancient adaptation to the environmental conditions in dry
lands. Utilizing additional ground or surface water sources enabled societies to establish …

The investigations conducted previously on the Nasca puquios, with particular reference to
those systematically performed by Schreiber and Lancho Rojas (1995), Schreiber and …

Reservoir sedimentation is a major problem experienced by reservoirs in Indonesia.
Reservoir sedimentation can be overcome by reducing the amount of sediment that enters …