Drones and Satellites Spot Lost Civilizations In Unlikely Places

sciencehabit writes What do the Sahara desert and the Amazon rainforest have in common? Until recently, archaeologists would have told you they were both inhospitable environments devoid of large-scale human settlements. But they were wrong. Here today at the annual meeting of the AAAS, two researchers explained how remote sensing technology, including satellite imaging and drone flights, is revealing the traces of past civilizations that have been hiding in plain sight."

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How can a civilization perish without AGW?

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I wonder, on what the changes of climate, that eventually turned Sahara into an inhospitable desert, were blamed by the shamans of the time...

Could it possibly have been the burning of too much of the wrong fuels by the selfish population? Or some other sacrilege?