Archaeology --- For those interested...
Feb 5, 2018 12:26:04 #
A new application for a technology used for somewhere else before is stunning everyone in the archaeology field...
Feb 5, 2018 12:26:29 #
Feb 5, 2018 12:45:51 #
Feb 5, 2018 13:08:13 #
This is exciting stuff and revealing human history in the central American area.
One of the expenses that the report claims is hindering the research is the cost of aircraft. Perhaps the drones is a way to go. Of course most of the smaller drones are limited in there scope. However the technology exists to make larger ones that can be operated from a land base over a longer period of time. Think of the possibilities...
One of the expenses that the report claims is hindering the research is the cost of aircraft. Perhaps the drones is a way to go. Of course most of the smaller drones are limited in there scope. However the technology exists to make larger ones that can be operated from a land base over a longer period of time. Think of the possibilities...
Feb 5, 2018 14:27:57 #
blue-ultra wrote:
This is exciting stuff and revealing human history in the central American area.
One of the expenses that the report claims is hindering the research is the cost of aircraft. Perhaps the drones is a way to go. Of course most of the smaller drones are limited in there scope. However the technology exists to make larger ones that can be operated from a land base over a longer period of time. Think of the possibilities...
One of the expenses that the report claims is hindering the research is the cost of aircraft. Perhaps the drones is a way to go. Of course most of the smaller drones are limited in there scope. However the technology exists to make larger ones that can be operated from a land base over a longer period of time. Think of the possibilities...
Maybe something along of the lines of the Octocopter in the image below. This unit is carrying a Canon DSLR camera / lens as well as a Lidar side scanning radar unit and high resolution GPS system. It is primarily used for preparing 3D images of old oil & gas facilities requiring reclamation. With a full complement of four batteries it has a flight time of slightly over one hour.
$33,000 fully decked out but less expensive than the cost of an aircraft!
I shot the picture as the drone was returning from a wellsite mapping job. The wellsite was abandoned in the 60's and bush / trees had reclaimed the site to the point of hardly being able to walk through the area.
bwa
Feb 6, 2018 12:10:12 #
Rongnongno wrote:
Thanks for this. You reminded me to set my DVR to record this program on NatGeo tonight.Feb 6, 2018 12:36:42 #
jcave
Loc: Cecilia, Kentucky
I would suggest that anyone interested in this topic read the Book of Mormon, an account of civilizations that existed in this part of the world between 600 BC and 400 AD.
Feb 6, 2018 19:42:29 #
I always wondered what became of this once great civilization? Did an epidemic wipe them out?
Feb 6, 2018 19:56:17 #
Hal81 wrote:
I always wondered what became of this once great civilization? Did an epidemic wipe them out?
According to recent research I was reading, yes. It was the result of Europeans coming in with new viruses. It was unintentional, unlike the US distribution of tinted contaminated blankets to the Native American.
Feb 6, 2018 22:14:04 #
Feb 7, 2018 03:10:47 #
Rongnongno wrote:
Just now finished watching a 1 hour special on Nat. Geo Channel on this exact topic. In Search of the Lost Empire of the MayaA new application for a technology used for somewhere else before is stunning everyone in the archaeology field...
Check you local listing for rerun info. Website states Aug 11.
Feb 9, 2018 15:02:51 #
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