Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
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Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#2Everytime I see these I think of lost gold.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#3Needs a date in the title - this was posted a number of times here when it was published.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#4Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#5http://benedante.blogspot.com/2024/01/kunguints-sangay-and-w...
The previous common-sense belief was that the Amazon was never densely populated and had always been exactly like it is today, a dense forest with primitive tribes scattered hundreds of km apart.
Twenty years ago, brazilian researchers who would mention this theory were considered a bit lunatic, at the “elvis isn’t dead” or “the US reads all the world’s email” level of conspiracy theories.
So playing down these discoveries with discussions of urban density or cities vs villages is pointless, the important finding is that there was some form of civilization there at all.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#6How do the LIDARs work for this kind of thing? I always imagined that the light used wouldn't be able to penetrate objects that are opaque in the visible light spectrum.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#7(Jan 2024)
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#8http://benedante.blogspot.com/2024/01/kunguints-sangay-and-w...
The previous common-sense belief was that the Amazon was never densely populated and had always been exactly like it is today, a dense forest with primitive tribes scattered hundreds of km apart. Twenty years ago, brazilian researchers who would mention this theory were considered a bit lunatic, at the “elvis isn’t dead” or “the US reads all the world’s email” level of conspiracy theories. So playing down these disco…
Agreed, but:
> “the US reads all the world’s email” level of conspiracy theories
Never say never.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#9Everytime I see these I think of lost gold.
Every time i see these I think about Spanish explorers who brought small pox over and caused these cities to collapse, only to return to Spain telling stories of jungle cities. Only to have the fleets turn up to dense jungle years later and fine nothing.
But yeah, I also think about lost treasure and Indian Jones a lot with these stories.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#10http://benedante.blogspot.com/2024/01/kunguints-sangay-and-w...
The previous common-sense belief was that the Amazon was never densely populated and had always been exactly like it is today, a dense forest with primitive tribes scattered hundreds of km apart. Twenty years ago, brazilian researchers who would mention this theory were considered a bit lunatic, at the “elvis isn’t dead” or “the US reads all the world’s email” level of conspiracy theories. So playing down these disco…
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