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<< Other Photo Pages >> La Ciudad Blanca - Ancient Village or Settlement in Honduras

Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 02 September 2013  Page Views: 5134

Multi-periodSite Name: La Ciudad Blanca Alternative Name: The White City
Country: Honduras
NOTE: This site is 187.371 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 15.200000N  Longitude: 84.5W
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La Ciudad Blanca
La Ciudad Blanca submitted by bat400_photo : Site in Honduras. Mysterious mound revealed by Lidar technology. Credit: UTL Scientific, LLC (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Gracias a Dios Department of Honduras. The popular name given to a collection of Isthmo-Columbian ruins discovered by LiDAR signatures in 2012.

This legendary city said to be located in the La Mosquitia area of northeastern Honduras was supposedly sought by the conquistador Cortez for fabled riches. The White City has variously been "found" (and then lost again) by people ranging from Charles Lindbergh and 1940's adventurer Theodore Morde. Morde describe the White City as the "City of the Monkey God" and although he brought back numerous artifacts for the Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian in New York City, he did not link any of them to the city of fabulous temple ruins that he said his local guides described.

The stories are so vague, various, and changeable that few archaeologists or ethnographers believe the legends to be connected to a specific pre-contact city. But artifact finds in this section of Honduras are frequently identified as being associated with La Ciudad Blanco.

In 2012 filmmakers Steve Elkins and Bill Benenson arranged for LiDAR flyovers of the area where la Ciudad Blanco was reputed to be located. William Carter of the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), a research center for airborne scientific LiDAR mapping, interpreted some of the data as unexcavated pyramids and plazas. Áfrico Madrid, Honduran Minister of Interior, proclaimed the finds as THE legendary city, and nearly all news stories have identified the LiDAR signatures as proof of a find of the same city of gold sought by Cortez.

Archaeologist Christopher Fisher (Colorado State University) has joined the filmmakers in planned ground proofing of the site in 2013. The location seems destined to bear the popular name of the legend.

Note: the location given is only roughly general for this region of Honduras. It will be revised if the actual location of these sites are released in 2013.

Note: Ruins of Lost City May Lurk Deep in Honduras Rain Forest. See comment.
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Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest by davidmorgan on Saturday, 07 March 2015
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An expedition to Honduras has emerged from the jungle with dramatic news of the discovery of a mysterious culture’s lost city, never before explored. The team was led to the remote, uninhabited region by long-standing rumors that it was the site of a storied “White City,” also referred to in legend as the “City of the Monkey God.”

Read more at National Geographic
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LiDAR and lost cities in Central America by bat400 on Tuesday, 10 September 2013
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An international team of researchers including Colorado State University professors Christopher Fisher and Stephen Leisz have been utilizing LiDAR technology to seek ancient settlements and human constructed landscapes in an area long rumoured to contain the legendary city of Ciudad Blanca – the mythical “White City” – in Central America.

The project is a collaboration of the Global Heritage Foundation (GHF), UTL Productions, the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), CSU, and the Honduran government. Fisher, an associate professor of archaeology, and Leisz, assistant professor of geography, have previously worked with airborne LiDAR to help reveal a lost pre-Columbian city in central Mexico. LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote sensing technique used to examine the earth’s surface.

Researchers focused their search for evidence of ancient settlements in the Mosquitia Coast region of Central America. Until now, dense tropical forests and relative inaccessibility of the region have hampered systematic archaeological investigation. LiDAR’s computer-generated images allow researchers to “see” through the forest canopy to the ground surface, revealing any evidence of ancient settlements or human-engineered landscapes.

“We may never be able to tell whether any of these are Ciudad Blanca, or whether the legendary city ever existed, but we can clearly see in the UTL data evidence that there was a densely settled region with a human modified environment. These conclusions provide important new insights into the pre-Hispanic settlement of this largely unexplored region.”

Interpretation of the LiDAR data suggests that the largest of these settlements is roughly the size of the central core of Copan, Honduras, though the architecture appears to be much less monumental. Copan was a Mayan city of nearly 20,000 people that thrived from the 5th to the 9th centuries AD.

Fisher, Leisz and several co-authors championed the use of LiDAR in Mesoamerica in a recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as a scientific revolution that will fundamentally change the way that archaeologists do fieldwork.
Said Leisz. “The Honduras LiDAR results add to a growing number of studies using LiDAR point cloud-derived elevation data to analyze the ancient human impacts on the landscape of the Americas.”

Over the next several months Fisher, Leisz, and NCALM scientists will systematically analyze the Mosquitia data in preparation for fieldwork aimed at ground verification and documentation of the results as part of the broader GHF project.
Source: Colorado State University

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Ruins of Lost City May Lurk Deep in Honduras Rain Forest by bat400 on Saturday, 31 August 2013
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New images of a possible lost city hidden by Honduran rain forests show what might be the building foundations and mounds of Ciudad Blanca, a never-confirmed legendary metropolis.

Archaeologists and filmmakers Steven Elkins and Bill Benenson announced last year that they had discovered possible ruins in Honduras' Mosquitia region using lidar, or light detection and ranging. Essentially, slow-flying planes send constant laser pulses groundward as they pass over the rain forest, imaging the topography below the thick forest canopy.

What the archaeologists found — and what the new images reveal — are features that could be ancient ruins, including canals, roads, building foundations and terraced agricultural land. The University of Houston archaeologists who led the expedition will reveal their new images and discuss them today (May 15) at the American Geophysical Union Meeting of the Americas in Cancun.

"We use lidar to pinpoint where human structures are by looking for linear shapes and rectangles," Colorado State University research Stephen Leisz, who uses lidar in Mexico, said in a statement. "Nature doesn't work in straight lines."

The archaeologists plan to get their feet on the ground this year to investigate the mysterious features seen in the new images.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see http://www.livescience.com.
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