Those drone before/after photos of Irish famine village ruins blew my mind

The difference between the lidar scan and the ground-level shots of the Céide Fields in County Mayo is wild. In just 150 years, the stone field walls got completely swallowed by 12 feet of bog peat. Has anyone else seen similar landscape shifts from aerial archaeology around old settlements?

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michael_coleman1010h ago

Doesn't that mean we're literally walking on top of whole lost worlds right now without even knowing it?

taylor.sean9h ago

Dude, think about somewhere like Çatalhöyük in Turkey. That place was a whole city of like 8,000 people living in mud-brick houses packed together like a honeycomb, all built and abandoned around 9,000 years ago. We literally just dug that up in the last few decades, and now it's a tourist spot. But there's probably hundreds of smaller settlements just like it still sitting under a few feet of dirt, or even under the parking lot of your local mall. I mean, construction crews in London are always finding Roman stuff just a few feet down. So yeah, we're definitely stepping on whole histories every day without a clue.