nature video | Lost beneath the leaves: Lasers reveal an ancient Amazonian civilisation @NatureVideoChannel | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Pyramids and canals built by an ancient civilisation have been discovered beneath the forests of the Bolivian Amazon. LiDAR technology allowed archaeologists to see through the canopy to reveal hundreds of previously unknown structures and settlements from the Casarabe culture of 500-1400 AD. In this film archaeologist Heiko Prümers describes his work in a region long thought to be unable to support complex ancient societies.

Read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04780-4