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I finally bought into the lidar survey hype after seeing a dig in Ohio
Always thought lidar was overhyped until a crew in Cincinnati used it to spot a buried Hopewell earthwork under 2 feet of cornfield soil last fall. Has anyone else had a field method they doubted turn out to be legit?
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matthewdixon1mo ago
Hold up though. Is finding one dirt mound really that big of a game changer? Feels like people are acting like lidar just found the lost city of Atlantis instead of a bump in a farm field.
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nathan9011mo ago
People get excited about small breakthroughs because that's how everything big starts, same way nobody cared about the first weird looking mushroom until someone realized it could cure infections. One mound today might be the reason someone finds a whole lost village in five years, you just never know what's hiding under the surface until someone takes that first look.
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susanb341mo ago
One mound is a big deal if it proves the LiDAR actually works in that area. That one bump could mean there's a whole settlement hiding under the ground we would have never known about. You gotta start somewhere.
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