LIDAR is going to be something in ten years We are going to find stargates. Having us store their hi tech gadgets in silos, get ready for the bombshells 😒

cnn.com/2023/02/16/world/maya-civilization-causeways-lidar-discovery-scn/index.html

here’s a short video made by another channel (for some reason cnn doesn’t put up some videos on their youtube cnn site

“ CNN
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With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser technology has helped researchers discover a previously unknown 650-square-mile (1,683-square-kilometer) Maya site that offers startling new insights about ancient Mesoamericans and their civilization.

The researchers detected the vast site within the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin of northern Guatemala by using LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology, a laser mapping system that allows for structures to be detected below the thick tree canopies. The resulting map showed an area composed of 964 settlements broken down into 417 interconnected Mayan cities, towns and villages.

By using LiDAR technology, a laser mapping system that uses light waves to created a three-dimensional map, researchers were able to locate structures normally hidden away by the dense jungle canopy.

A 110-mile (177-kilometer) network of raised stone trails, or causeways, that linked the communities reveals that the early civilization was home to an even more complex society than previously thought, according to a recent a***ysis on the architecture groupings, published in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica.

“They’re the world’s first superhighway system that we have,” said lead study author Richard Hansen, a professor of anthropology at Idaho State University. “What’s amazing about (the causeways) is that they unite all these cities together like a spiderweb … which forms one of the earliest and first state societies in the Western Hemisphere.”

The causeways, which rise above the seasonal swamps and dense forest flora of the Maya Lowlands, formed “a web of implied social, political, and economic interactions” with further implications regarding “strategies of governance” due to how difficult they would have been to build, according to the study.

‘Superhighways’ and society
The causeways were composed of a mixture of mud and quarry stone among several layers of limestone cement. Mayans likely made the elevated pathways with a process similar to the one they used to build their pyramids — by creating 10- to 15-foot (3- to 4.5-meter) stone boxes, then filling, stacking and leveling them off, according to Hansen. Several of these causeways were as wide as 131 feet (40 meters), nearly half the length of an American football field.

In Maya language, the word for causeway is “Sacebe” which translates to “white road.” On top of the raised roads was a thick layer of white plaster, which would have helped to increase visibility in the night as the plaster reflected moonlight, Hansen said.

The causeways were constructed and elevated above the swamps and dense forest flora by using layers of mud, quarry stone and limestone cement. On top of the raised roads was a thick layer of white plaster.

They didn’t have any pack animals in the Maya region … and we’re not thinking that they had wheeled vehicles on these causeways like Roman roads, like chariots or whatnot, but they were definitely built for people to interact, communicate and probably travel between sites,” said Marcello Canuto, anthropology professor and director of the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane University.

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Canuto, who was not involved in this study, was co-director on research that used the same LiDAR technology to reveal over 60,000 ancient Mayan structures in 2018.
The causeways “were efforts that involve a lot of people, a lot of labor and coordination,” Canuto said. “They are complex work projects that would have required coordination and some form of hierarchy.”

Advanced laser mapping technology
LiDAR has been used to detect the remains of early Mayan civilizations since 2015, when two large-scale surveys were taken of the southern half of the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin. The technology allows for these discoveries to be made without harming the rainforests.

From an airplane flying overhead, light waves are pulsed down, and they bounce off objects below before returning to the sensor. Similar to sonar, which uses sound to locate structures, the LiDAR sensor tracks the amount of time each pulse takes to return and creates a three-dimensional map of the environment below.

“Imagine you’re in Poughkeepsie, (New York), and that’s all you can see, but you might catch this thing that we call the turnpike, right, but everything else is covered in jungle … you’ll have no idea that this turnpike might connect New York with Philadelphia,” Canuto said. “LiDAR is telling us everything that we found archaeologically over the last 100 years, here and there, is found everywhere … LiDAR lets us connect all the dots.”

Researchers are looking to gather more sampling and possibly locate more settlements through LiDAR technology this month to continue their research into the early Mayan civilization, according to Hansen.“

here’s some artist rendering illustrations from reuters article from january

wow i wanna walk there

the world is ending on december 22nd 2012

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

Bro got the the date wrong

sorry i forgot the exact date of a 11 year old hoax

dont apologize baby ur perfect

nerd

It definitely was NOT a hoax.

gare, the topic is the highway not this silly calendar myth , frankly, i don’t have time for it. 😒

the sub topic could also be lidar & can we scan the jungles to find temples with treasure where i can prosper from? 😎

it was Y2K 2

Y2K was 2012’s uncle?

you could rent a lidar sensor geocue.com/sensors/drone-lidar/drone-lidar-rental

😳 i’m on my way to guatemala rn

Video is actually fascinating

this is why i'll never trust climate predictions

Bro thought this movie was a documentary

“we were warned”

So I'm guessing this is a King Fritz using the founding Titan to erase our memories and history situation, and all of the technology we've come up are stuff we as a society already did centuries ago.

@Mictlan

i can picture them meeting up for a serve in the moonlight for some ayahuasca or some s***

wild fam and these yppl try to make others believe the natives were ignorant

Nah it's just civilizations dying and being lost to history. Imagine a world wide catastrophic event happens today like Last of Us. A lot of tech today would be lost for decades or even centuries again. That iPhone will never be the same again for a while.