Ancient Maya Wetland Field System at Birds of Paradise (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Ancient Maya Wetland Field System at Birds of Paradise

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Pictured is the Birds of Paradise (BOP) ancient Maya wetland field system and parts of the nearby Maya sites of Gran Cacao (bottom-left) and Akab Muclil (top-left) in Northwestern Belize. The authors created this image from a lidar-derived digital elevation model (DEM); a semi-transparent hillshaded DEM overlays a colorized DEM with a color stretch that emphasizes anthropogenic features.

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Image courtesy of T. Beach et al. (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas)

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