I just read The Lost City of the Monkey God this year and loved it. It is about them using lidar to find cities untouched since shortly after the Spanish came. Incredible book but also a bit sad considering how much history has been taken/destroyed by looters.
Some of the most interesting archeology right now is coming out of these lidar surveys of the Amazon. Centuries before European arrival much of the Amazon basin was heavily populated with towns and villages, criss-crossed by roads and canals and countless farming communities. So much so that the Amazon rainforest today is effectively a product of centuries of human intervention.
The first Europeans that explored the Amazon recorded witnessing large indigenous towns and agricultural communities all along the river, and these were just the last remnants of much larger agrarian societies.
C-O-L-A_COLA on October 14th, 2024 at 16:55 UTC »
I just read The Lost City of the Monkey God this year and loved it. It is about them using lidar to find cities untouched since shortly after the Spanish came. Incredible book but also a bit sad considering how much history has been taken/destroyed by looters.
KlingonLullabye on October 14th, 2024 at 17:51 UTC »
That's some Federation planet scanning tech
Sohn_Jalston_Raul on October 14th, 2024 at 18:20 UTC »
Some of the most interesting archeology right now is coming out of these lidar surveys of the Amazon. Centuries before European arrival much of the Amazon basin was heavily populated with towns and villages, criss-crossed by roads and canals and countless farming communities. So much so that the Amazon rainforest today is effectively a product of centuries of human intervention.
The first Europeans that explored the Amazon recorded witnessing large indigenous towns and agricultural communities all along the river, and these were just the last remnants of much larger agrarian societies.