Digitally Recreating Ancient Buried Structures

19 March 2003 - 12:00pm

A team from the University of Cincinnati is digitally recreating seventeen centuries old geometric structures.

"Seventeen centuries ago, North America's Midwest was covered with hundreds of precisely aligned astronomical markers...These geometric structures survived for close to two millennia before most were plowed over in the 19th century, paved over in the 20th century, or destroyed by archaeologists...EarthWorks is the most comprehensive virtual reconstruction of archaeological remnants...Hancock's team used archaeological data gleaned from remote-sensing devices that can detect remains below the ground, and infrared aerial photographs and satellite images..."

Source: Wired, March 18, 2003
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