alt Hacker Newsauthor here. Update: the site had already been discovered. It appears in a 2025 paper by Estrada-Belli, Canuto, Šprajc & Fernandez-Diaz (page 14) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105288. The agents missed it, I missed it, and it wasn't in INAH's register yet (National Institute of Anthropology and History). The rest of the story still holds, and there's still a lot left to discover with vibe-archeology. I hope this brought some extra excitement to archaeology.
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puglr • today at 12:06 AM
> The agents missed it while going through the literature
Is this verifiable? I wonder given the recent publications regarding intentional deception that is ultimately opaque to end users.
armanj • yesterday at 4:55 PM
it's definitely exciting enough. thanks for sharing.
I appreciate you following up and admitting not being aware of the site having been previously found. It's great work, regardless, and shows promising results for future archeological discoveries. If anything, the site having been previously found encourages greater confidence that future findings aren't hallucinated.