Tag: 3D mapping
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Previously I wrote a paper on the mapping of the hominid tracks at Laetoli Site S, which connected the trackway from two excavations conducted in 2016. In the search for other tracks in other grids, I mapped other features that are not footprints, but could be confused with them. This short paper is that analysis,…
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Four sites with standing pillars, often in clusters or circles, which are estimated to be 8,000 years old, were constructed on the margin of a large freshwater lake in northern Kenya in the early Pliocene. Limited excavations of one of them showed abundant human remains associated with these monuments. GPR surveys were carried out within…
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Very high frequency ground-penetrating radar (GPR) reflection data were collected and processed at Laetoli Site S, to connect an ancient hominid pathway that was uncovered in two excavations conducted in 2016. These footprints have been dated to about 3.6 million years ago and are likely those of Australopithecus afarensis. Profiles were collected 5 cm apart…