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Tried that new lidar scanning on a dig near Flagstaff and it showed us something we missed with hand mapping for weeks
We spent three days hand mapping this Hohokam pit house site near Flagstaff and kept coming up with weird gaps in the floor layout. I got access to a rental lidar unit (not cheap, like $400 for the weekend) and ran it over the same area in about an hour. It picked up a whole second structure right under a low rise we thought was natural talus. I learned that trusting old eyes and tape measures can blind you to what's right under your feet. Has anyone else had lidar totally rewrite their site interpretation on a project?
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joelsanchez7d ago
Was the second structure deeper or just offset from the first?
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black.margaret7d ago
Read a geology blog that mentioned the second structure was offset, not deeper, which lines up with what @joelsanchez was curious about. Kinda makes sense when you think about how the layers shifted over time lol.
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