"a picture of what lies beneath them on (and under) the ground". How does the "under"-part work? I understand that in this context light means in or near the visible range of em waves. Yet visible ...

LiDAR, archaeologists joke that it’s ‘the dream’ when approaching large-scale field surveys, especially in remote or difficult to traverse areas. It seems like new 'lost' cities are coming to light ...

In ancient Asia, particularly the period spanning from 130 B.C.E. to 1453 C.E., one of the most prominent trade routes in the ...

The first-ever use of cutting-edge drone-based lidar in Central Asia allowed archaeologists to capture stunning details of two newly documented trade cities high in the mountains of Uzbekistan. A team ...

Lasers are being used extensively in archaeology for recording and discovering sites as well as analyzing artifacts in great detail. One laser technology that is particularly good at discovering new ...

OAXACA, MEXICO—According to a Newsweek report, Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of McGill University and his colleagues spotted the remains of more than 1,000 structures built by the Zapotec in southern ...

BOHUNICE, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that a settlement dating back some 7,000 years has been mapped with lidar technology at Hrádok, a hill in central Slovakia, by researchers from the ...

In a remarkable archaeological discovery, Dutch researchers have unearthed a 4,000-year-old site, dubbed the ‘Stonehenge of ...

Lidar – light detection and ranging, a light-based method of remote sensing – has become a valuable tool in archaeology, exposing details about ancient sites that had previously gone unseen in ...

LiDAR technology has been around for some time now, and today, it is widely used, for example, in autonomous cars. The latest iPhone models - iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone Pro Max - are using it as well.

In 2009, Chris Fisher was in Michoacán, Mexico, studying the ancient Purépecha empire, when his team found remnants of a settlement. He set out to find the edge of it, only to discover that what they ...

CU Boulder archaeologist Sarah Kurnick addresses some common myths about archaeology at the 50 th anniversary of the discovery of China’s terracotta warriors March 1974 was particularly dry in China’s ...