Inca builders at Machu Picchu National Archaeological Park |
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| Authors: | Dominika Sieczkowska Kubicka-Sowińska Anna Jose M Bastante |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Physics, Division of Geochronology and Environmental Isotopes, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland;2. Faculty of Architecture, 3D Scanning and Modeling Laboratory, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland;3. National Archaeological Park of Machupicchu, Dirección Desconcentrada de Cultura de Cusco, Peruvian Ministry of Culture, Cusco, Peru |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | 3D scanning Chachabamba cosine quantogram Inca architecture Machu Picchu system of measurement |
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