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Lasers reveal ancient pyramids and canals hidden in the Amazon

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Pyramids and canals built by an ancient civilisation have been discovered beneath the forests of the Bolivian Amazon. LiDAR technology allowed archaeologists to see through the canopy to reveal hundreds of previously unknown structures and settlements. In this film archaeologist Heiko Pr�mers describes his work in a region long thought to be unable to support ancient societies.

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Lasers reveal ancient pyramids and canals hidden in the Amazon

Hundreds of new archaeological sites have been discovered beneath the trees.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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Lidar reveals landscape of ancient cities hidden in the Amazon

An international team of archaeologists has discovered a network of ancient cities in the Llanos de Mojos savannah-forests of Bolivia using Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging).The cities were constructed by the indigenous Casarabe culture between AD 500-1400, who built large scale urban centres and a network of reservoirs, causeways and checkpoints comparable only with the Archaic states of the central Andes.The central spread of the cities cove…

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