Screenshot from a Reuters video showing a 3D render of what the stone settlement of Kweneng may have looked like.
Laser imaging technology has allowed archaeologists to discover the stone settlement of Kweneng, which existed on the outskirts of Johannesburg over two centuries ago.
Screenshot from a Reuters video showing a 3D render of what the stone settlement of Kweneng may have looked like.
LiDAR, was used to "redraw" the remains of the city, along the lower western slopes of the Suikerbosrand hills near Johannesburg.
The ancient homesteads at Suikerbosrand are shown against an aerial photograph from 1961. The two rectangles show the footprint of the LiDAR imagery.
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