Review Mayan city With palaces and pyramids he discovered in a jungle in Mexico, a doctor’s doctor who saw a few years ago Mexico.
The PhD in Tulano University Luke Auld-Thomas was traveling between Xpujil, archeological site and coastal cities, when he deepened the unexplored settlements in the landscape.
Through these dense rainforests, he needed the help of lidars, the distant sensation technologies that uses lasers to measure the distances of objects on the surface of the Earth.
And that can be very expensive. Financies often are often reluctant to invest in LIDAR surveys in areas where there is no spectacular evidence of Mayan locations, Auld-Thomas said.
But several years later Auld-Thomas had an idea. The previous surveys would use Mayan civilization to find out if they could be placed in these areas.
“Ecological scientists, forestry and civil engineering scientists have used Lidar surveys to study some of these areas for completely separate purposes,” says Auld-Thomas News Note Tuesday. “So what will happen to the Lidar Survey of this field already?”
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In 2018, Auld-Thomas, Arizona North University Professor, is located data wrap In 2013, Mexican Natural conservation project to control carbon in forests of Mexico. The goal of the previous group was to map the earth carbon in the woods.
The publicly available datas set the Auld-Thomas Research Group to identify the research team as a territory worth more archaeological research.
For five years, Auld-Thomas and his team studied remotely using technology and analysis. And when Auld-Thomas studied these data, he faced the horrible surprise – the evidence of 6,600 Mayan structures, consisting of an iconic stone pyramids including a large unknown city.
The team did not anticipate the regions of the researchers to follow the doubts between researchers. It also validates previous research and puts a permanent question.
“It does not reveal the different view of the Mayan urban and landscapes, which is already a detailed vision,” said “The number of buildings in the entire data set said to talk between the regional population between the population of the population of the population of the population of the population of the population of the region.”
Researchers posted on Tuesday findings Antiquity of the magazineDescribing the structures and wide buildings that make up the old city called “Valeriana” after the nearby freshwater lake. The group collaborated at the University of Houston college at the National Center for Local Archaeologists and Aerial Laser Map at the Mexican Center.
“This density is equal to Mayan sites like Calakmul, Oxpemul and Becán,” Adriana Velazquez Morlk, Director of the National Institute of Mexico Anthropology and History Campeche, and one of the co-authors of the research in a statement.
He added that their Institute works with local populations to ensure the conservation of the new site.
Auld-Thomas said archaeologists who know well in the region to improve the team’s study and offer a “deep view of this region.
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“The nature of the waste, the archaeological buildings there were large and immediately known as the kind of political capital marked by Maya classical era,” said Auld-Thomas told CBS News.
The height of the Mayan Empire was a classic period, approximately 250 ads spread to at least 900 ads, when they made advances in astronomy, hieroglyphics and calendar system.
Arguably the most Advanced civilization In America, the empire once occupied what Southern and Central America, including Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. Approximately 7 to 11 million people lived at the Mayan civilization, according to 2018 study Science magazine.
Auld-Thomas said his team studied 50 square mile and the city of Valeriana (built before 150 ads). Technologies allowed researchers to see archaeological settlements, as well as in compact forest conditions in the southeastern state of Mexico.
Archaeologists in 2018 covered Maya’s massive waste network hidden in centuries in Guatemalan jungle. In 2022, the human burial fields and bullets in Spain were find In the country of Maya in the city.
Auld-Thomas said that the major parts of the Mayan world are archaeologically unknown because the regions were so wide, which studies that document their existence. Auld-Thomas said the locals were able to know the structures, but they did not have the Government and greater scientific community.
“It really puts a surprise point, no, we didn’t find everything, and yes, they need to find much more” Auld-Thomas said Tulano University press release.
In addition, research emphasized the value of the open data in science and the data collected by someone in a disciplinary is useful for someone else in a completely different area of research.
“What I hope is that this is not only opening data but also collaboration between archaeologists and environmental scientists.”
