Urban settlements in the #Amazon region? They existed long before Columbus. But knowledge about them was more or less lost for a long time. In her keynote lecture on Tuesday, Bolivian archaeologist Carla Jaimes Betancourt from the #UniBonn explained why #Lidar technology is now bringing back this knowledge and what new discoveries have already been made.
In an interview, she also told us why she became an archaeologist 👇
#KielScales25 #Urbanism #Bolivia #Archaeology #LlanosdeMoxos #landscapeengineering #landscapearchaeology #keynote

Morning reading. Still in the introduction and so far it is exactly as fascinating (and depressing) as expected.
#Fens #Conservation #Biodiversity #BiodiversityLoss #LandscapeEngineering #LandscapeEcology

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