The tech helping debunk long-held archaeological beliefs

Archaeologists – budgets permitting – can now get their hands on swathes of powerful scientific tools that their predecessors could only have dreamed of. What secrets have these helped discover?

In recent years, airborne laser scanning technology lidar, which can penetrate thick foliage and vegetation, has led to the dramatic discovery of a vast, 2,000-year-old Mayan settlement hidden beneath a Central American rainforest, as well as medieval cities beneath Cambodian jungles, for example.

After more than three decades of application, ancient DNA has helped rewrite human history and unlocked secrets of the evolution of language, migration, and even the origins of the Black Death.

Read the full story on the E andT website here: https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2023/06/the-tech-helping-debunk-long-held-archaeological-beliefs/