– New Methods and Technologies of Natural Sciences for Archaeological Investigations in Nasca and Palpa, Peru -- – New Methods and Technologies of Natural Sciences for Archaeological Investigations in Nasca and Palpa, Peru -- Geoarchaeology -- Man and Environment in the Eastern Atacama Desert (Southern Peru): Holocene Climate Changes and Their Impact on Pre-Columbian Cultures -- Built on Sand: Climatic Oscillation and Water Harvesting During the Late Intermediate Period -- Geophysics -- Beneath the Desert Soil – Archaeological Prospecting with a Caesium Magnetometer -- Quantum Detection Meets Archaeology – Magnetic Prospection with SQUIDs, Highly Sensitive and Fast -- Viewing the Subsurface in 3D: Sediment Tomography for (Geo-)Archaeological Prospection in Palpa, Southern Peru -- The Field of Sherds: Reconstructing Geomagnetic Field Variations from Peruvian Potsherds -- Bioarchaeology -- From Hunters to Regional Lords: Funerary Practices in Palpa, Peru -- Talking Bones: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Individuals from Palpa -- Who Were the Nasca? Population Dynamics in Pre-Columbian Southern Peru Revealed by Ancient DNA Analyses -- Humans and Camelids in River Oases of the Ica–Palpa–Nazca Region in Pre-Hispanic Times – Insights from H-C-N-O-S-Sr Isotope Signatures -- The Nasca and Their Dear Creatures – Molecular Genetic Analysis of Pre-Columbian Camelid Bones and Textiles -- Archaeochronometry -- Of Layers and Sherds: A Context-Based Relative Chronology of the Nasca Style Pottery from Palpa -- The Clock in the Corn Cob: On the Development of a Chronology of the Paracas and Nasca Period Based on Radiocarbon Dating -- Cold Light from the Sediments of a Hot Desert: How Luminescence Dating Sheds Light on the Landscape Development of the Northeastern Atacama -- Light Thrown on History – The Dating of Stone Surfaces at the Geoglyphs of Palpa Using Optically Stimulated Luminescence -- Geomatics -- Virtual Archaeology – New Methods of Image-Based 3D Modeling -- Virtual Flight Over the Nasca Lines – Automated Generation of a Photorealistically Textured 3D Model of the Pampa de Nasca -- Context Matters: GIS-Based Spatial Analysis of the Nasca Geoglyphs of Palpa -- A Model Helicopter Over Pinchango Alto – Comparison of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Aerial Photogrammetry -- Perspectives and Contrasts: Documentation and Interpretation of the Petroglyphs of Chichictara, Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Image-Based 3D Modeling -- Pottery Plotted by Laser – 3D Acquisition for Documentation and Analysis of Symmetry of Ancient Ceramics -- Archaeometallurgy -- Gold in Southern Peru? Perspectives of Research into Mining Archaeology -- Fingerprints in Gold -- Summary -- Life at the Edge of the Desert – Archaeological Reconstruction of the Settlement History in the Valleys of Palpa, Peru.