Huge ancient Maya civilisation revealed in northern Guatemala by laser scanning

The team continued: “An additional 189 ancient Maya settlements of varying sizes were identified within the geomorphological borders of the southern Mirador–Calakmul Karst Basin… for a total of 964 settlements, of which 645 are unnamed as yet.”

“An additional 52 known sites are located on the Campeche side, but without the benefit of contiguous LiDAR, with the exception of dispersed areas in Campeche, Mexico.

“Many of these settlements demonstrate a political/social/geographical relationship with other nearby settlements.

This, they added, “has resulted in the consolidation into at least 417 ancient cities, towns, and villages with identifiable site boundaries.”

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