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Archeology

Laser mapping is exposing whole road systems and pyramids that ground surveys could never catch

Archaeologists working across the Americas and Southeast Asia are finding that airborne laser scanning, known as LiDAR, is detecting ancient road networks, pyramids, and urban grids that decades of ground-level fieldwork failed to record. In northern Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve, a single airborne survey exposed causeways, fortifications, terraces, and dense settlement patterns at a regional […]