What technology did they use to site the cities?
GPS would be real handy for that, but of course, Garmin was just a recent start-up in those times...
Actually, they used LORAN :-)
Cities are laid out topographically...strategically along travel routes. But you have to work with what you have. You need food, shelter and clothing.....and water, water, water....
“The unasked question (so far as I’ve seen): What technology did they use to site the cities? GPS would be real handy for that, but of course, Garmin was just a recent start-up in those times...”
Do keep in mind that this is the Telegraph promoting this notion, after all.
And doesn’t anyone find it a bit suspicious that the Telegraph showed only a couple of google earth pics, and not a star map overlaid with a space shot of the supposedly 117 similarly terrestrially located cities? And besides, doesn’t the axial precession cause a shift in the appearance of the celestial sphere over time impacting this supposed citing of cities?
Looks to me like the kid may have just been pouring over google earth maps and noted a bump in the jungle that no one else had.