Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle
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#2I'm reading "Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston right now. It's been a highly entertaining first-hand account of (what I think was) the first use of LIDAR for archaeology in the jungles of Central America, and the ground exploration that followed. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who's interested in this story.
Re: Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle
#3I'm reading "Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston right now. It's been a highly entertaining first-hand account of (what I think was) the first use of LIDAR for archaeology in the jungles of Central America, and the ground exploration that followed. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who's interested in this story. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01G1K1RTA
You might also be interested in "Breaking the Maya Code" which is a great historical account of the decipherment of Maya script.
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Maya-Code-Third-Michael/dp/0...
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#4You see overgrown mounds all over central america, and not all of them are volcanic. There's an immense amount of undiscovered history there.
Re: Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle
#5I'm reading "Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston right now. It's been a highly entertaining first-hand account of (what I think was) the first use of LIDAR for archaeology in the jungles of Central America, and the ground exploration that followed. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who's interested in this story. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01G1K1RTA
You might also be interested in "Breaking the Maya Code" which is a great historical account of the decipherment of Maya script. https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Maya-Code-Third-Michael/dp/0...
I loved this book! I think any software engineer would enjoy it.
Re: Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle
#6Reminds me of the recent finding that the Amazon River basin was much more cultivated in the ancient past than was thought:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/its-now-...
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#7This highly corroborates Charles C Mann's book 1491: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the...
From wikipedia: The book presents recent research findings in different fields that suggest human populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous, had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously thought.
Re: Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle
#8I'm reading "Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston right now. It's been a highly entertaining first-hand account of (what I think was) the first use of LIDAR for archaeology in the jungles of Central America, and the ground exploration that followed. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who's interested in this story. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01G1K1RTA
I just started reading this book last night (my wife listened to the audiobook version several months ago, which caught my interest). Strange how these things "come together"...
Re: Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle
#9You see overgrown mounds all over central america, and not all of them are volcanic. There's an immense amount of undiscovered history there.
Yeah i think we are heavily underestimating how quickly nature can retake cultivated land.
Re: Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle
#10I'm reading "Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston right now. It's been a highly entertaining first-hand account of (what I think was) the first use of LIDAR for archaeology in the jungles of Central America, and the ground exploration that followed. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who's interested in this story. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01G1K1RTA
I appreciate you using a smile.amazon link.