2nd city gallery

The Terracotta Empire?

These features, like the others in the survey, are off a tributary coming from a lake. Is this a settlement pattern? 

This second cluster wasn’t part of the original survey. It started with a single pin I dropped early on, back when I was just beginning to explore the area. I had forgotten about it entirely until I was going through old coordinates on my drive after completing the main analysis.

Out of curiosity, I revisited the location and spent some time scanning the surrounding area. What turned up were multiple features with characteristics similar to those from the first site: possible modular outlines, right angles, geometric shapes, and clay-toned exposures that contrast with the surrounding vegetation.

This area is located roughly 115 kilometers (70 miles) from the primary cluster, and like the first site, it's situated miles up a tributary that leads off a lake. That parallel—both in geography and the apparent surface material—makes this location worth noting.

While no conclusions can be drawn without field investigation, the visual consistency raises the possibility that this isn’t just an isolated anomaly. As was seen in Honduras with the identification of multiple related sites through LIDAR, repeated patterns across space may suggest a larger system at work.

If archaeologists eventually confirm that the first city is artificial, then this second site—given its material and environmental similarities—may be a logical candidate for follow-up survey work.