The use of air photo interpretation in archaeological landscape research: the case-study of a Colombian Andean plateau
The aim of this paper is to use historical aerial photographs for the reconstruction of archaeological areas nowadays disappeared due to urban growth; this is supported by data from excavations and colonial documentation. In this case, we intend to reconstruct and analyze the raised fields system bu...
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Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Arqueologia/article/view/6011 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=arqueo&d=6011_oai |
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| Sumario: | The aim of this paper is to use historical aerial photographs for the reconstruction of archaeological areas nowadays disappeared due to urban growth; this is supported by data from excavations and colonial documentation. In this case, we intend to reconstruct and analyze the raised fields system built by the pre-Hispanic groups in the Bogotá savanna, located in the Colombia Andean highlands. The results show that the hydraulic system significantly transformed the ecological environment: it controlled the mobility of rivers and seasonal floods, blocked water flows and flooded specific areas of the savanna. The objective of the pre-Hispanic groups was not to drain the savanna but to manage the water to get the most out of it, coexisting with it. |
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