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The oldest widely accepted ‘city’ in North America: Poverty Point, Louisiana, ~3500 years old.
Poverty Point’s gravity in such an ancient time resulted in native people traveling from hundreds of miles away to see it, & artifacts from the Carolina Coast, the Great Lakes, & possibly even the northern Great Plains have been discovered buried here.
People would travel from all over Eastern America to see something that essentially removed & elevated itself from the natural world. It’s hard to imagine the impression this would’ve had on ancient people.
So much of Eastern America’s ancient history sits hidden, reclaimed by the woodlands after hundreds or thousands of years. Rediscovering these sites, & visually reconstructing them, gives us a sense of how impressive & grand the lost worlds in our backyard really were.
Hugh is one of the best examples recently of archaeologists making archaeology accessible to the wider public… and doing it well!
Most people have no idea that the United States has its own “Amazon River” - the Amazon of North America🐊
Luke Reagan retweeted
If you could send @lukecaverns to one mound or earthwork site for this LiDAR project, where would you send him?
When Europeans arrived in North America 400 years ago, multiple eras & civilizations of Mound Builders had risen & fallen as far back as 4500 BC.
Thousands of these sites still sit hidden, or forgotten, across the Eastern US.
In our Mound Builder LiDAR Mission: we’re aiming to 3D model & visually recreate these sites - giving people a way to view this lost world like never before.
My hope is that by being able to see close-to-accurate digital reconstructions of the overlooked Mound Builders’ world: people will finally be able to fully appreciate the scale & power of ancient Eastern America.
When Europeans arrived in North America 400 years ago, multiple eras & civilizations of Mound Builders had risen & fallen as far back as 4500 BC.
Thousands of these sites still sit hidden, or forgotten, across the Eastern US.
In our Mound Builder LiDAR Mission: we’re aiming to 3D model & visually recreate these sites - giving people a way to view this lost world like never before.
My hope is that by being able to see close-to-accurate digital reconstructions of the overlooked Mound Builders’ world: people will finally be able to fully appreciate the scale & power of ancient Eastern America.
Any digital artists want to collaborate on our Mound Builder project?
Using AI to recreate ancient sites is useful & can be very accurate - but I’d rather ultimately publish human-made reconstructions.
After over 3 years of mapping Southeastern US Mound sites on low resolution LiDAR - we’re finally headed off on our first mission to bring a new light to the Mound Builder world!
I travel the world & study non-European cultures, while wearing a Western Hat with boots… I’m pretty sure I am the living embodiment of my own culture.
