[HN Gopher] Ancient Maya city - Lidar technology unearthed tropi...
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       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)
        
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       | 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'
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       | Video presentation, 1hr, in Spanish (by the Instituto Nacional de
       | Antropologia e Historia, Mexico), at
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58Wjq9jRWY
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       | Information about the use of LiDAR for archaeology can be found
       | at https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/lidar-
       | and-...
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       | > _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].
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       | 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calakmul#Population_and_extent
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       | 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.
        
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