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LiDAR Uncovers a Vast Lost Pre-Hispanic Landscape in Ecuador’s Andean Chocó
Deep beneath the dense rainforest of north-western Ecuador, traces of a forgotten human world are quietly resurfacing. What long appeared to be untouched jungle is now understood as a carefully shaped cultural landscape, revealed through airborne LiDAR scanning in the Andean Chocó region near Quito. A Forest That Concealed Centuries of Human Planning The discovery…