My early digs felt like guessing games until tech stepped in.

We used to overlook so much, but new tools show us everything.

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Yeah, the "guessing games" part is so true. I saw a documentary where they used ground-penetrating radar on a field everyone thought was empty. It mapped out a whole Roman villa foundation right under the grass. Before that, they'd have just dug random test pits and probably missed it. Now with stuff like lidar too, they can find lost cities in jungles from a plane. It's like getting x-ray vision for history.

the_jessica1mo ago

Just read about how lidar found a huge Maya city in Guatemala... it's wild. Exactly what @leom57 is talking about with the x-ray vision. I watched a show where they used it to map entire road systems under the forest... stuff you'd never see from the ground. Before, archaeologists had to cut through jungle for years and might still miss things. Now they can plan digs right where the structures are. Makes you wonder what else is out there hiding under our feet... or under the trees.

joel_butler1mo ago

My cousin worked on a lidar survey in Belize, and they found a whole network of Maya farms. @the_jessica, it's crazy how much is still hidden.