The first image below is a Google Earth image showing part of the area on which fieldwork over the next several years will focus. This area is just west of the Rio Cahuacan, which can be seen at the right side of the first two images. The mouth of the Rio Cahuacan is about 13.7 km west of the mouth of the Rio Suchiate, which is the international border between Mexico and Guatemala. The red polygons are areas indicated as "sites" in the Mexican (INAH) site records. Markers labeled "DB" are also from the INAH records. The other markers are mounds that my colleagues and I have visited over the past several years.
The next image is the same area from Google Earth, but with minimally processed LiDAR images overlain. The labeled white spots on the LiDAR imagery are archaeological mounds, and the others, clearly, are mounds as well, just ones that haven't been checked yet on the ground.
The final image, below, zooms in on the area with the visited archaeological mounds and uses hillshade to highlight the mounds that show up on the LiDAR imagery. The blue dots indicates mounds that we have visited, the large one at the very top being "Conq1" (Conquista-1) from the previous images.
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