Machu Picchu in Context (PDF)

Mariusz S. Ziólkowski is an Archaeologist and ethnohistorian. He is the Director of the Centre for Andean Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, Extraordinary Professor at the Catholic University "Santa Maria" of Arequipa, Peru. He is specialised in archaeology and Inca ethnohistory, absolute dating techniques, archaeoastronomy. He participated in archaeological works e.g. in Poland, Iraq, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia. He is the Director of the Condesuyos Archaeological Project (Arequipa) and of the "Satellite Sites of Machu Picchu" project. Author of, among others : "Pacha unanchan. The Metropolitan Calendar of the Inca State", 2015; (with Jan Szeminski) "Myths, Rituals and Politics of the Incas". 2018 ; "The Iconography and Use of Inca and Colonial Drinking Vessels", [in] The Oxford Handbook of the Incas, ed. by Sonia Alconini, R. Alan Covey, Oxford University Press, 2018; and others.¿

Nicola Masini is a Research Director of CNR, Deputy Director of CNR-Institute of Heritage Science (ISPC). At the University of Basilicata, he teaches Restoration Fundamentals at the Degree Course in Architecture, Ancient Construction Techniques and Archaeological Restoration at the Master of Specialization in Archeology. He is also a member of the Doctoral School "Cities and Landscapes: Architecture, Archaeology". He is Co-Editor in Chief and co-founder of the journal "Heritage". Since 2008 he has been the Director of Scientific Mission of CNR ITACA-Peru and directed projects and scientific campaigns in Peru (Nasca, Cahuachi, Pachacamac, Ventarron, Machu Picchu, Chankillo), Bolivia (Tiwanaku), Colombia (Cartagenas de indias).His dominant scientific interests are focused on the development and application of remote sensing based methods for archaeological research, landscape archeology, cultural heritage risk analysis and conservation; and the study of the dynamics of human attendance and environmental changes in pre-Hispanic civilizations. He authored and coauthored about