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 ...

"It was one of the reasons that I chose to go into archaeology." A LiDAR scan of Guiengola, showing the civic and ceremonial center (left), separated by a defensive wall from the city's commoner ...

Figure 1 In the cross section image above (Figure 1), the yellow points are from a photogrammetry dataset while the points in brown are from a LiDAR scan over the same area. As can be clearly seen, ...

The archaeological team used a lidar survey (shorthand for “light ... saving them from a costly new scan of the region. The team interrogated the 2013 map for evidence of previously undocumented ...

For more on the Zapotec, go to "Zapotec Power Rites." Lidar scan of Guiengola showing the civic and ceremonial center (left) and the lower-class areas (right), split by a defensive wall (center) ...