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Resumen El Santuario de Pachacamac es un repositorio de la memoria del mundo andino antiguo, pero ¿qué tan cabal es esta memoria, cuanto se ha olvidado y malentendido? Este ensayo revisa crónicas iniciales y términos básicos de la... more

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- Pachacamac, Incas, Archaeological Architecture

Building temporary structures requires a change in the approach with respect to “ordinary” design. Some aspects (e.g. speed of construction, ease of disassembly) assume greater importance, others (e.g. durability) take second place. Temporary shelters for archaeological excavations also set further issues: the need to minimize construction time, in order to extend to the maximum the time available for excavation activities; the need to build in a complex plani-altimentric context and often in the absence of a definitive survey of the site; the impossibility of using usual construction machinery and to build “ordinary” foundation structures. Working in the Middle East requires you to interact with local workers who do not speak western languages and have a quite different technical culture; moreover, since excavations are often located in peripheral areas, the variety of materials available at affordable price and for prompt delivery is almost always limited. Together with general and methodological considerations, the paper illustrate the project of temporary shelters for the archaeological excavation at Kınık Höyük (South Cappadocia, Turkey). In relation to local technical and economic context, depending on the nature of the site, it was decided to build timber frame structures made of standardized locally-produced sawn beams, assembled by nailing. A fundamental requirement of the project was to ensure resistance to high winds that blow on the site from all directions: therefore the structure was braced using struts and X bracings, and suitable stabilizing masses have been set up to overcome the lightness of the structure.

- by Emanuele Zamperini and +2
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- Archaeology, Architecture, Conservation, Heritage Conservation

Five temples of Apollo on Mainland Greece and Ancient Ionia (Asia Minor), namely Delphi, Didyma, Hierapolis, Delos and Rhodes, have been examined regarding their functioning through astronomical orientation. Recent research has shown that the rise, setting, orbit and observation of certain constellations in the celestial sphere, as well as the solar stands, can be directly related to the architecture of the temple, i.e. construction, orientation, and keeping a calendar of the most important Apollonian oracular temple at Delphi. Here this lunar-solar-stellar configuration has been applied to other significant temples of Apollo. It is shown that at Didyma, Hierapolis and Delphi, the celestial pattern, as well as the landscape, local geology and architecture are similar, but different in temples without oracular function (Delos and Rhodes). Measurements were carried out by in situ readings and by Google Map tools.

- by Anne Nyquist
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- Ancient History, Applied Mathematics, Archaeology, Archaeological Science

Представлены основные результаты археологических раскопок мавзолея Кёк-Таш, расположенного в Кочкорской долине Кыргызской Республики. Исследования проводились в рамках совместного проекта Кыргызско-Турецкого университета Манас
с управлением по сотрудничеству и развитию при аппарате премьер-министра Республики Турция (ТИКА). В результате проведенных работ полностью вскрыт первый известный на территории Кыргызстана подземный двухкамерный мавзолей. По своей планировке, строительному материалу, форме тромпов и арок он наиболее близок архитектурным сооружениям Средней Азии караханидского времени. Однако найденные в мавзолее отдельные вещественные находки и результаты радиоуглеродного анализа образца черепа подростка указывают на вторую половину XIII в. В мавзолее были обнаружены скелеты и отдельные кости трех человек, не сохранившие своего первоначального положения. Вероятно, исследуемый объект является семейной усыпальницей,
где были погребены муж, жена и их ребенок. Однако окончательные выводы на этот счет могут быть сделаны после радиоуглердного и ДНК-анализов образцов человеческих костей из исследуемого мавзолея.

- by Kunbolot Akmatov
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- Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Archaeological Architecture
- by Alfio Pinasco
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- Pachacamac, Archaeological Architecture