New pyramids and villages in the Amazon

The “Lidar payoff” continues!

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Many of the sites included complex monumental mounds known as lomas, waterways and reservoirs, in addition to massive pyramids topped with small platforms. Most important, according to study co-author Heiko Prümers, an archaeologist from the German Archaeological Institute, these settlements were linked by elevated causeways up to 6 miles in length that cut through the savanna.

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