Urban settlements in the #Amazon region? They existed long before Columbus. But knowledge about them was more or less lost for a long time. In her keynote lecture on Tuesday, Bolivian archaeologist Carla Jaimes Betancourt from the #UniBonn explained why #Lidar technology is now bringing back this knowledge and what new discoveries have already been made.
In an interview, she also told us why she became an archaeologist
#KielScales25 #Urbanism #Bolivia #Archaeology #LlanosdeMoxos #landscapeengineering #landscapearchaeology #keynote