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Lasers reveal ancient settlements hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest
Archaeologists used lasers to view an ancient civilization hidden in the Amazon rainforest.
Researchers employed lidar to assess half of the expansive site, which was constructed by members of the pre-Hispanic Kilamope and Upano cultures, two sedentary agrarian societies that once occupied the valley. Based on its sheer size and complexity, the site "resemble[d] similar Maya urban systems in Central America," according to the statement. "Such a discovery is another vivid example of the underestimation of Amazonia's twofold heritage: environmental but also cultural, and therefore Indigenous," the study authors wrote in their paper.
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