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by groth 3901 days ago
Anyone know how burial mounds/roman roads are found? Would love to see that reproduced for the non-academic world.
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Basically you look for shapes. Usually you start from some vague idea, documents describing stuff that should be there, and then you look for shapes that look too peculiar for nature alone. See Portus for an example: natural ponds are not usually hexagonal...