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The big archaeological digs happening up in the sky

7 mins | Mar 5, 2023

With thousands of years of human history at risk from disappearing, Geoff Manaugh explains how lidar technology can reduce years of laborious excavations into a single afternoon and discover stories from the human past before they vanish.

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