[HN Gopher] Ancient Maya city - Lidar technology unearthed tropi... ___________________________________________________________________ Ancient Maya city - Lidar technology unearthed tropical megapolis [at] Calakmul Author : mdp2021 Score : 28 points Date : 2022-10-28 20:17 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (ucalgary.ca) (TXT) w3m dump (ucalgary.ca) | mdp2021 wrote: | 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 | Antropologia 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_ | mondayp wrote: | I use LiDar in the USA for finding places to metal detect. | blacksmith_tb wrote: | Very cool project, I misread that as "megalopolis" but I take it | that a megapolis is a city with thousands of residents - 50K in | the case of Calakmul[1], which is large for a premodern city, but | only 1/4 the size of Tenochtitlan[2]. | | 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calakmul#Population_and_extent | | 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan#History | ks2048 wrote: | I went to Calakmul earlier this year - it's an awesome site. It's | amazing that there may be yet much more to be discovered. | reacharavindh wrote: | I was there at Calakmul in 2015. It was awe inspiring to see an | ancient settlement in the middle of what is a remote site of | today. We drove through several hours of dirt roads to get to the | site, and the place was magnificent. Walking in the ruins felt | like time travel because we could climb in the pyramids, imagine | what their houses looked like from what remained, was told by the | archeological info boards about what used to be a merchants | gallery vs residential area etc. To imagine the life of the | mayans was fascinating. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-28 23:00 UTC)