Archaeology From Space : how the future shapes our past /

Parcak, Sarah H.,

Archaeology From Space : how the future shapes our past / Sarah Parcak. - First edition. - New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019. - 277 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Time capsule -- Space archaeology -- The promise of space archaeology -- A risky business -- Digging in the wrong place -- A grand tour -- Empires fall -- A capital discovery -- The future of the past -- The challenge -- Stolen heritage -- Space archaeology for everyone -- Acknowledgments.

"A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than she bargained for when new technologies developed for use in space allow an anthropologist a new perspective on earth's ancient histories and new ways of coping with those"--

9781250231345

2018040565


Archaeology--Remote sensing.
Artificial satellites in remote sensing.
Aerial photography in archaeology.
Space photography.

CC76.4 / .P36 2019

930.1


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