CNN News:考古学家在新墨西哥发现基瓦会堂

See, if you an I.D. me. I became a U.S. state in 1912, but Native Americans lived here more than 1,000 years before that. My state nickname is "Land of Enchantment", my capital is Santa Fe.

你能猜出我是谁么?我在1912年成为美国一个独立州，但是美国印第安人在那里已经居住了1000年以上，我的别名叫“迷人之地”，省会为圣达菲。

I`m New Mexico and relicts of early inhabitants are all over the state.

我就是新墨西哥，早期原始居民为主要居民。

What`s fascinating is that researchers in New Mexico are using some of our latest technology to study those ancient relicts. Now, when you think of archeology you might think of digs, ditches, dredges, but drones? They are helping people see beneath the desert surface to study ruins underneath vegetation and sandstone without touching a shovel.

有趣的是新墨西哥州专家正使用我们最新的科技设备对那些保存下来的古老物品进行研究。现在当你想到考古的话可能想到挖掘，沟渠，疏通，但是无人驾驶飞机呢?他们可以帮助研究人员在没有进行挖掘工作的前提下看到沙漠表面以下的画面。

With a small remote control drone, equipped with thermo technology, archeologists were able to see underneath the dry New Mexican desert. The remains of a 1,000 year old village in north-western New Mexico.

在一个小型无人驾驶飞机的帮助下，加上热技术的配备，考古学家终于能看到新墨西哥干燥沙漠地面下的情况，在新墨西哥西北方向有一个1000年历史的村庄被保留了下来。

And really, just a few days` work allowed us to do something which would have taken a decade of work if we were to actually be - trying to excavate this entire area, for example.

就仅仅几天的工作就足足代替了我们十年的工作量，如果我们真正去挖掘整个区域的话。

Dr. John Kantner with the University of North Florida says he studied the landscape south of Chaco Kenyon for decades and new there were homes from Pueblo ancestors in an area now called Blue Jay. But with thermal imagery, he and a team found even more.

北佛罗里达大学的John Kantner博士告诉我们他已经对查课肯扬南部的情况研究了有几十年的时间了，现在又发现了普韦布洛祖先留下的房屋，现在被称为冠蓝鸦。随着热影像的现实，他和他的团队发现了更多有价值的东西。

We were able to find rooms, we think we may have been able to find as I mentioned before at least one kiva there`s blow to surface.

我们可以找到许多房间，我认为我们有可能找到我之前提到的基瓦会堂，至少一个地面有特征的。

Kantner says one of the most interesting discoveries is a possible Kiva, the ceremonial structure where people would meet for warship and decision making.

Kantner说其中最有趣的一个发现就是发现了一个可能是基瓦会堂的建筑，整个正式的结构是人们用来商定军事和做决策的地方。

That really shapes your interpretation of what their lives were like. So, for me it`s very exciting that we may have actually been able to using this technology, identify these features below the surface.

这真的很难让你去解释他们生活是什么样的，所以我一直很兴奋，因为我们利用这种技术或许可以鉴别出地面下这些东西是什么。

The images helped guide continued research into the past where the estimate hundreds of people once lived.

影像图片可以帮助指导研究学者们继续对过去估计数百人曾居住过的地方做研究。

If you drive now to Interstate 40 today, you have to imagine that 1,000 years ago it actually was a pretty packed landscape.

如果今天寄开车到了40号洲际公路，你不得不想像1000年前这里之前是一片繁华的景象。

The new technique gives archeologists a way to piece together what remains of those who came before us.

新技术给考古学家提供了一种先进科学方法把之前出现的零零碎碎的痕迹拼凑起来。