Over 100 Chachapoya structures discovered at Gran Pajatén in Peru’s Andes Archaeologists have uncovered over 100 previously unknown structures at Gran Pajatén, a centuries-old archaeological complex in Peru’s Río Abiseo National Park. The discovery fundamentally reinterprets the site, one of the most iconic remnants of the Chachapoya civilization—an ancient Andean culture known as the “people of the cloud forest.” Aerial and terrestrial LiDAR scanning, photogrammetry, topographic mapping, and technomorphological analysis were used by the researchers to map the dense terrain without damaging the fragile ecosystem or the remains beneath the forest canopy. The discovery is a follow-up to previous work done by researchers in the 1980s that only documented 26 buildings... More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/05/over-100-chachapoya-structures-discovered-at-gran-pajaten/