An ancient physical anomaly.
The Tropical Rainforest.
Explore its information, technology, principles of life, and mysteries to be discovered.
The universe is information; what we know is simply the retrieval. Here, you will learn about the technology used to retrieve what we have so far about tropical rainforest civilizations: LIDAR, carbon dating, DNA analysis, photogrammetry, ground radar, palaeoecology, etc., but most importantly, when studying human civilizations, the layer of our own abstract contextualization. Propose new technology and methods, your own informational process, and abstract realizations.
Source: Canuto et al. 2018, Science 361 — full citation in the dossiers and References.
Everything here can be collected.
Hover any object for the ◈ mark, or select any passage of text, and it enters your database — a private space where your finds, notes, captures and connections drift until you give them order.
Sites of the forested world
Each dossier holds the evidence, the story of how it was retrieved, and a navigable 3D survey built from the published findings — with the canopy yours to strip away.
The instruments of seeing
Eight ways of asking the ground a question. Each entry explains the physics, the data it yields, its honest limits — and hands you the instrument itself to turn over, open up, and examine part by part.
The real collections
A live window into open-access museum collections and working archaeologists’ own scans. Every object here is a real, catalogued thing — the museum’s photograph, the scanner’s mesh — streamed straight from the source, credited and licensed. Nothing modelled, nothing invented.