Monday, April 19, 2021

Drone finds ancient Native American city in Kansas

 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/drones-native-american-settlement-etzanoa-kansas-pasture

 

"Specially equipped drones flying over a Kansas cattle ranch have detected the buried remnants of a horseshoe-shaped ditch made more than 400 years ago by ancestors of today’s Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, scientists say.

The find adds to suspicions that the Kansas site was part of a sprawling population center that Spanish explorers dubbed the Great Settlement in 1601, archaeologist Jesse Casana of Dartmouth College and his colleagues report August 24 in American Antiquity."

 

Just slap some fancy equipment on a drone and you too can find cool stuff!