Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air
2022年5月25日 · Perched in a helicopter some 650 feet up, scientists used light-based remote sensing technology (lidar) to digitally deforest the canopy and identify the ancient ruins of a vast urban settlement...
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Cities Hidden in the Ecuadorean Amazon
2024年1月12日 · Using laser scanning technology, researchers have found traces of 2,500-year-old cities in the Amazon rainforest. Complete with a complex network of farmland and roads, the discovery is the...
Archaeologists find vast network of Amazon villages laid out like …
2020年12月9日 · The lidar survey, combined with satellite data, revealed a remarkable 25 circular mound villages and 11 rectangular mound villages, the researchers said.
Laser scans reveal ancient cities hidden deep in the Amazon …
2024年1月11日 · Lidar imaging, a method using airborne lasers to penetrate the forest canopy, revealed more than 6,000 rectangular earthen platforms, plaza structures, and mounds connected by an extensive gridwork of straight roadways and footpaths.
Lasers reveal ancient settlements hidden deep in the Amazon …
2024年1月11日 · Lasers have revealed a complex network of pre-Hispanic structures and roadways hidden beneath the canopy of the Amazon. At 2,500 years old, it's the earliest (and largest) example of an...
Lidar reveals undiscovered city beneath Amazon rainforest - TechCrunch
2022年5月27日 · A new lidar-powered analysis of land in the Amazon basin has provided evidence of a previously unknown urban center of “mind blowing” complexity.
These Amazonian Villages Were Laid Out Like Clock Faces
2020年12月15日 · Researchers in the Brazilian Amazon have found 25 long-abandoned villages laid out in patterns resembling a clock face, with mounds circling a central plaza.
Amazon Lidar Images: Unveiling the Hidden Secrets of the …
2023年8月27日 · Airborne LIDAR technology has revolutionized the study of the Amazon by unveiling detailed three-dimensional images of ancient civilizations concealed beneath the forest canopy.
Lasers reveal ancient urban sprawl hidden in the Amazon - Science News
2022年5月25日 · This screenshot from a lidar-based 3-D animation shows the layout of Cotoca, a primary site in an ancient Amazonian urban network. Raised causeways radiate in different directions from...
Lost Cities of the Amazon: How Science Is Revealing Ancient …
6 天之前 · By combining lidar datasets, they are discovering traces of a lost world: evidence that between 10,000 and 24,000 pre-Columbian “earthworks” exist across the Amazon River basin.. While the remote scans still need to be verified on-site, Peripato says the findings so far make a compelling case that ancestral Amazonians systematically built up large urban centres and …