Satellites Expose 8,000 Years of Civilization

ananyo writes "By combining spy-satellite photos obtained in the 1960s with modern multispectral images and digital maps of Earth's surface, researchers have created a new method for mapping large-scale patterns of human settlement. The approach was used to map some 14,000 settlement sites spanning eight millennia in 23,000 square kilometres of northeastern Syria — part of the fertile crescent of the Middle East. Traditional archaeology has focused on the big features such as cities or palaces but the new technique uncovers networks of small settlements, revealing migration patterns and sparking renewed speculation about the importance of water to city development."

Comments

doh!

[Anonymous Coward]

How are young earthers going to explain this one?

Re:only 8000 years?

[AlphaLop]

Please don't give them more blocks to prop up their religion, we need religion like we need a hole in the head.

Religion has killed more people than drugs so I keep waiting for the U.S. to declare war on it. (I can only hope.)