Lasers reveal ancient settlements hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest

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• streetfestival@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Editor’s summary of original article published in Science:

  When intact, the Amazonian forest is dense and difficult to penetrate, both on foot and with scanning technologies. Over the past several years, however, improved light detection and ranging scans have begun to penetrate the forest canopy, revealing previously unknown evidence of past Amazonian cultures. Rostain et al. describe evidence of such an agrarian Amazonian culture that began more than 2000 years ago. They describe more than 6000 earthen platforms distributed in a geometic pattern connected by roads and intertwined with agricultural landscapes and river drainages in the Upano Valley. Previous efforts have described mounds and large monuments in Amazonia, but the complexity and extent of this development far surpasses these previous sites. —Sacha Vignieri

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m having deja vu. Definitely would swear I read the same thing like 5 ish years ago

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  • Paraponera_clavata@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like new discoveries from the same folks

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  • ironeagl@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It takes a while to gather the data, new areas all the time.

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  • Vertelleus@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Weren’t they BS claims too?

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• bloopernova@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Paul Simon was prescient!

  Lasers in the jungle indeed.

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• crystalmerchant@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cool cool now do the Nephites

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