Inca builders at Machu Picchu National Archaeological Park

Dominika Sieczkowska; Kubicka Sowińska Anna; Jose M. Bastante

doi:10.1111/arcm.12849

Inca builders at Machu Picchu National Archaeological Park

Dominika Sieczkowska
, Kubicka Sowińska Anna
, Jose M. Bastante

Division of Geochronology and Environmental Isotopes (RIF/RIF2)

Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Ministerio de Cultura, Perú

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Knowledge about the Inca measurement system is based on information from the colonial chronicles and modern studies of the 16th-century Quechua dictionaries. Based on those texts, we can presume that the Incas used an anthropometric system of measurement adopted from the proportions of the human body. Using cosine quantogram analysis and statistical verification, it is possible to verify the existence of the measurement system used by the Inca architects. For this purpose, a measurement series of architectural and water infrastructure elements were collected from 3D point cloud of the Chachabamba and Machu Picchu settlements in Machupicchu National Archaeological Park.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	924-938
Number of pages	15
Journal	Archaeometry
Volume	65
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12849
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023

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Keywords

3D scanning
Chachabamba
Inca architecture
Machu Picchu
cosine quantogram
system of measurement

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Archeology

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