Symbolic landforms created by ancient earthworks near Lake Titicaca

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2010-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/1009.2231v2

Physics

Geophysics

Keywords: Satellite maps, Landforms, Artificial landforms, Geo-glyphs, Image processing, Archaeology

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Interesting landforms created by an ancient network of earthworks are shown, using Google satellite imagery enhanced by an image processing. This network covers a large part of the land near the Titicaca Lake. Satellite images clearly display the slopes of hills criss-crossed with terrace walls and the surfaces of the plains covered with raised fields, indicating that this was once a highly productive agricultural place for the south central Andes. Some of the landforms are rather remarkable, having a clear symbolic function. Among them, there are structures which seem to represent birds, where ponds are their eyes.

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