The discovery has promised to rewrite the history of many Pacific Island cultures, showing that societies once presumed to have relied on subsistence fishing and natural tropical bounty, were in fact engaged in sophisticated agricultural planning.
'LiDAR,' this international team of researchers noted, 'can reveal whole archaeological landscapes hidden under heavy vegetation.' That has led to its comparison with radiocarbon dating as a groundbreaking technological advance in archaeology.
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