Archaeologists Discover Hidden Network of Amazonian Villages Arranged Like Clock Faces – ScienceAlert

Using remote laser scanners mounted on helicopters, archaeologists have been able to peer below the forest canopy of the Amazon, revealing the layouts and links of ancient villages laid out like clock faces.
While these so-called mound villages had been spotted before, the new surveying technology has revealed exactly how they were organised at scale, and the data were gathered without the need for laborious work and excavation on the ground.
The findings were made possible through LIDAR scanning…

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