The description confused me, as it describes the use of a real Lidar measurements to detect "change" in the terrain. But certainly, it can't be a temporal change before and after... to detect medieval settings in the data. Is the area still changing differentlybetween scans over multi year's? I don't think so.
I think this is visualization code highlighting natural VS. human train structures, at known locations of old settlements? Showing different approaches on how to visualize the man-made heights in the terrain.
But still, I'm lost how this could help finding new ones..