ANCIENT MAYA CIVILIZATION MAP PROFESSIONAL
If you have an informative 3D video that you would like us to promote, please forward to and if you would like to join the Younger Geospatial Professional movement click here. Note – If you liked this post click here to stay informed of all of the 3D laser scanning, geomatics, UAS, autonomous vehicle, Lidar News and more. An anthropology professor and the director of the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane University in New Orleans, Canuto is on the committee that oversaw the landmark LiDAR initiative in Guatemala, funded in 2016 by Pacunam, or Patrimonio Cultural y Natural Maya, Guatemala’s Maya heritage foundation.įor the complete article on ancient Maya civilization click here. “LiDAR is showing us things that we never would have been able to see with 100 years of research-and we have 100 years of research under our belts already, so it’s not like that’s hyperbole,” archaeologist Marcello Canuto told artnet News. Each student will make their own, personalized map of the Maya Civilization, and learn about the geography and landmarks of the region. In an instant, LiDAR can survey a wide geographic area that would take years to map on foot. Using laser pulses tied to a GPS system, LiDAR makes topographical readings and creates three-dimensional maps of the earth’s surface. Instead, the ancient ruins were identified remotely, thanks to aircraft from the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping that were equipped with high-tech Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) mapping tools. But it wasn’t a bushwhacking, Indiana Jones type who found them. In 2018, archaeologists in Guatemala announced the discovery of thousands of unknown Maya structures, hidden in plain site beneath overgrown jungle greenery. A recent spate of discoveries is transforming the field of Maya archaeology, as researchers discover new ways to identify and investigate ancient ruins. That was over five centuries before the civilization's classical peak when dozens of major urban centers thrived across present-day Mexico and Central America.The Maya civilization flourished more than 1,000 years ago, but modern technology is only now revealing the secrets of this ancient Mexican and South American culture-and it’s happening at an unprecedented pace.
The latest finds date to the so-called middle to late pre-classic Maya era, from around 1,000-350 BC, with many of the settlements believed to be controlled by the metropolis known today as El Mirador. "It shows the economic, political, and social complexity of what was happening simultaneously across this entire area," said lead researcher Richard Hansen. The Maya mastered astronomy, developed an elaborate written language, built towering monuments, and left behind exquisite artifacts.
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(Reuters Photo)Īs part of the Cuenca Karstica Mirador-Calakmul study, which extends from northern Guatemala's Peten jungle to southern Mexico's Campeche state, researchers have also identified pyramids, ball game courts plus significant water engineering, including reservoirs, dams, and irrigation canals. Centuries before Europeans arrived, an advanced civilization flourished in Mesoamerica, a region extending from southern Mexico through Central America. A map shows an area of Central and Southern Maya Lowlands that has revealed large and early ancient Maya cities nestled in the area known as the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin (MCKB) of northern Guatemala and southern Campeche, Mexico, after a study using LiDAR laser technology by seven foundations and organizations.
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