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Original title: 'UCalgary research collaboration reveals new urbanization and landscape modifications at ancient Maya city // Lidar technology unearthed tropica
by mdp2021 4y ago
Original title: 'UCalgary research collaboration reveals new urbanization and landscape modifications at ancient Maya city // Lidar technology unearthed tropical megapolis beneath forest canopy of the Calakmul Biosphere'
Video presentation, 1hr, in Spanish (by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico), at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58Wjq9jRWY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58Wjq9jRWY
Information about the use of LiDAR for archaeology can be found at https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/lidar-and-archaeology https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/lidar-and-...
> Many of the buildings and artifacts of Mesoamerica's civilizations have been hidden by lush rainforest vegetation. Now the technology of LiDAR has helped archeologists to unearth these hidden gems
- mdp2021 4y agoI see that a moderator rewrote my "cut" of the original title: thank you. I try to be conservative when I have to edit the titles (to avoid tampering as much as possible), so there will easily be better versions.