Amazon LiDAR survey suggests 20,000 ancient earthworks
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Amazon LiDAR survey suggests 20,000 ancient earthworks
A laser survey of southwestern Amazonia has changed the scale of an old archaeological question. The aircraft did not reveal a hidden stone city, and it did not count 20,000 monuments one by one. What it did reveal was a dense pattern of ancient earthworks beneath the forest canopy—enough for the research team to estimate […] The post LiDAR Suggests More Than 20,000 Ancient Earthworks in the Amazon appeared first on Curiosmos.
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