[SunkenCiv]

Satellites Expose 8,000 Years of Lost Civilization
by Virginia Gewin
Nature mag
Monday, March 19, 2012

Hidden in the landscape of the fertile crescent of the Middle East, scientists say, lurk overlooked networks of small settlements that hold vital clues to ancient civilizations.

Beyond the impressive mounds of earth, known as tells in Arabic, that mark lost cities, researchers have found a way to give archaeologists a broader perspective of the ancient landscape. By combining spy-satellite photos obtained in the 1960s with modern multispectral images and digital maps of Earth's surface, the researchers have created a new method for mapping large-scale patterns of human settlement. The approach, used to map some 14,000 settlement sites spanning eight millennia in 23,000 square kilometers of northeastern Syria, is published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[mountainlion]

Here are some pictures.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/slideshow/2012/03/27/earth-from-above-astronauts-photograph-our-planet/#slide=1

[GeronL]

Someone could use Google Earth to map all of the important archaeological sites from Earth and stuff. It’d be an interesting project.

[Tainan]

There is a lot of evidence that various places on the earth have remains of previous habitation.



Yep. There sure is.