Miss Gayle<p>"Lidar has been used in Central America for about a decade &amp; in that period, the technique has mapped 10x the area explored by archaeologists in a century. It seems certain Lidar will help scientists find many more Maya sites — so many...that not all of them can be excavated."</p><p><a href="https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/lidar-finds-valeriana/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigthink.com/strange-maps/lida</span><span class="invisible">r-finds-valeriana/</span></a></p><p>Very cool to see large cities &amp; civilizations that existed prior to christianity enslaving, oppressing, and killing off the Indigenous American people.</p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Archarology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archarology</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/AncientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientHistory</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/SouthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAmerica</span></a></p>