964 more settlements dicovered in Guatemala

mind blowing as this blows the lid off Mesoamarican archeology. an entire civilization with hundreds of cities discovered which each of the black squares in the map legend indicates, and the colored squares have been identified as larger settlements with pyramids & ball courts all interconnected with roads. tens of thousands of people would needed to have been working on this for decades all reclaimed by the density of the jungle. this civilization is hundreds of times larger and more sophisticated than previously thought. when you blow up the images you can see huge causeways, retaining walls, canals, and tunnels that cover and support the civilization in this marshy region.



LiDAR analyses in the contiguous Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin, Guatemala: an introduction to new perspectives on regional early Maya socioeconomic and political organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2022

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Last Edited by Digital Buddha on 01/03/2023 12:16 PM