Huge ancient city found in the Amazon.

So why not past 6,000 years old just curious.

a reply to: alldaylong

It is probably older but amazing what LiDar can do!

Its looking more and more like the Amazon was a bustling metropolis back in the day. Awesome news!

LiDAR should be employed anywhere at this point! Archeologists should be working with remote imaging specialists as well to determine potential sites. This would of course put the official story back 1,000's if not tens of thousands of years!

originally posted by: Therealbeverage
LiDAR should be employed anywhere at this point! Archeologists should be working with remote imaging specialists as well to determine potential sites.

Many are. It is an emerging field, not everyone has the skills or can gain access to the technology but the discoveries in the past few years in Egypt, which has few funding issues, have been driven by satellite and imaging technologies.

originally posted by: Therealbeverage
This would of course put the official story back 1,000's if not tens of thousands of years!

100s. Possibly. The discovery of more large man-made structures do refine our understanding and result in minor tweaks to the timeline, particularly in the Americas where the native populations were almost entirely wiped out by European contact, leaving these structures and cities unmaintained allowing the forests to swallow them up completely by the time the Europeans returned and began colonisation.

Tens of thousands of years ago, all there is to find are tools and bones, advanced imaging technology is way away from assisting with our understanding there, but of course other technologies are, DNA in particular is yeilding amazing results and shifting timelines and narratives aplenty.