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Re:Ancient Maya city – Lidar technology unearthed tropical m... by mdp2021 on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:18PM (#33377290)
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

Information about the use of LiDAR for archaeology can be found at 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

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Re:Ancient Maya city – Lidar technology unearthed tropical m... by mdp2021 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:12AM (#33382345)
I 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.
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