The discovery of two-millennia-old Scandinavian writing “will give us a lot of knowledge about the use of runes in the early Iron Age,” says professor Kristel Zilmer. This “grave-gift” surprise from dirt excavation is attracting much archaeological attention. So is a modern technique employed not far away geographically, as Lasers Shed Light on Scotland’s Mysterious Iron Age Tunnels. What looks like a bacterium that could have been found on that one-foot by one-foot Norwegian sandstone block is actually a 42-foot by 1-foot tunnel reanimated in 3-D by laser scanning. The imagery in Jody Harrison’s article is mind-blowing. So might be Carly Casella’s allusion in Scientists Find a ‘Yellow Brick Road’ in a Never-Before-Seen Spot of The Pacific Ocean. While no one contests the natural quality of the “road,” the reader is immersed even deeper into the discovery by this piece’s photography. And Scientists Have Discovered Almost 1,000 Long-Hidden Maya Settlements in Guatemala by utilizing LIDAR. David Nield says “the technology has uncovered another vast civilization network that researchers are going to be able to dig into.” This underscores the multiplicative value of combining new “cutting-edge” with traditional “cutting-dirt” methods. (WM)
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