Mel Gibson on archaeology: what the evidence says · JRE #2254
SUBJECT: ARCHAEOLOGY
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
And they now know from flying over, they use light lidar, which is this, light emitting radar. So they so when they use this laser radar shit, when they fly over it, they're finding all these grids and pathways and cities in the jungle.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
LIDAR surveys have genuinely revealed extensive pre-Columbian settlements, causeways, canals, and monumental earthworks in parts of the Amazon basin previously assumed to be pristine wilderness. The best-documented case, published in Nature in 2022, mapped the Casarabe culture in the Llanos de Mojos region of the Bolivian Amazon, finding a four-tiered urban settlement system, including two large sites of 147 and 315 hectares, across an area of roughly 4,500 square kilometers occupied between approximately AD 500 and 1400. That documented footprint, while significant, is a small fraction of the roughly 6 to 7 million square kilometer Amazon basin, so the claim that LIDAR shows most of the Amazon jungle is man-made agricultural land built by cities of millions of people overstates what the research establishes; scientists describe low-density urbanism concentrated in specific regions, not basin-wide replacement of jungle by cities. Researchers have also noted that media coverage of these findings tends toward a "lost cities finally found" narrative that overstates the novelty and scale beyond what the underlying data support. Status: exaggerated.