Lost beneath the leaves: Lasers reveal an ancient Amazonian civilisation

Archeologist are starting to understand more about the early people of the Amazon. New Lidar scans are revealing dense urban centers and complex structures.

Reported in the paper in Nature: Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon from Nature Video:

Pyramids and canals built by an ancient civilisation have been discovered beneath the forests of the Bolivian Amazon. LiDAR technology allowed archaeologists to see through the canopy to reveal hundreds of previously unknown structures and settlements from the Casarabe culture of 500-1400 AD. In this film archaeologist Heiko Prümers describes his work in a region long thought to be unable to support complex ancient societies.

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