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Our modern landscapes are host to a great number of ancient monuments such as medieval castles, churches, and period houses, yet many less romantic…
In his latest Notes from The Field opinion piece, Barney Devine writes about Fermanagh's often hidden heritage and our history-rich environment.
Case Study Geometry by Design: Contribution of Lidar to the Understanding of Settlement Patterns of the Mound Villages in SW Amazonia Authors: Abstract Recent research has shown that the entire southern rim of Amazonia was inhabited by earth-building societies involving landscape engineering, landscape domestication and likely low-density urbanism during the Late Holocene. However, the scale, timing, and intensity of human settlement in this region remain unknown due to the dearth of archaeological work and the logistical difficulties associated with research in tropical forest environments. ...
) Each settlement is connected across the wider landscape by further straight roads that also radiate out from the center of the villages. Furthermore, the complexity of this design matrix is multiplied ten-fold when we consider that some small groups of villages “exhibit regular distances.” So not only do their locations and alignments reflect cosmic principals, but they also adhere to carefully calculated measurements on the landscape, of “2.5–3 km [1.6–1.9 miles] and 5–6 km [3.1–3.7 miles] between sites,” according to the paper. Putting this Cosmos in Context Having now...