Machu Picchu in Context: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Human Past (Hardcover, 2022)

Part 1: Context.- Chapter 1. Machu Picchu Physiographic and Environmental Settings.- Chapter 2. Geological Setting and Geomorphological Hazards in Machu Picchu Area.- Chapter 3. Machu Picchu in the Context of the Expansion of the Inca State: Between Historical and Radiocarbon Chronologies.- Chapter 4. Machu Picchu in Context: The Inca Building Culture.- Chapter 5. Astronomical Observations at Machu Picchu: Facts, Hypothesis and Wishful Thinking.- Part 2: Prospecting Machu Picchu and Urubamba valley: New Results from Earth Observations Sciences and Technologies.- Chapter 6. Open Big Earth Observation Data and Artificial Intelligence for the Study and Preservation of UNESCO Natural and Cultural Heritage: The Case of Machu Picchu.- Chapter 7. New Results from Archaeogeophysical Investigations in Machu Picchu.- Chapter 8. Possibilities of Using LiDAR Systems in Architectural and Archaeological Research in the National Archaeological Park of Machu Picchu.- Chapter 9. In a Search for Standards in Inca Measuring System.- Chapter 10. Investigation at the Chachabamba Archaeological Monument.- Part 3: New results from  Archaeological and Historical Investigations.- Chapter 11. Machu Picchu: Interdisciplinary Researches.- Chapter 12. The Phaqcha from Chachabamba.- Chapter 13. High Mountain Underwater Archaeology: Research in the Lakes at the Foot of Salkantay Mountain.- Chapter 14. Inca Road System within Machupicchu National Archaeological Park.- Chapter 15. Quillcas in the Historic Sanctuary-National Archaeological Park of Machupicchu, a New Line of Evidence for the Earliest Occupancy of the Lower Vilcanota Basin.- Chapter 16. Ethnohistorical Documents of Machu Picchu National Archaeological Park.- Chapter 17. Proof of Concept Chemical Studies of the Biodeterioration of Ancient Structures in Machu Picchu.- Chapter 18. In a Search for Inca Construction Process Logistics: Case Studies of Four Structures from the Llaqta Machu Picchu.