Space Archaeology
Satellite imagery gives us a new tool in the global fight to protect our cultural heritage.
Space archaeology. Space archaeologist sarah parcak uses satellites to uncover ancient egyptian ruins. 10 space archaeology novels you must read a past focused discipline like archaeology would seem to be a subject far removed from the future focused science fiction genre. Now explorer sarah parcak is taking her groundbreaking space archaeology work to peru with the launch of globalxplorer a new and cutting edge platform that empowers citizen scientists around the world to help reduce looting and encroachment at important archaeological sites as well as discover and protect sites not known to modern archaeologists using satellite imagery.
Sarah parcak is a space archaeologist. In this short talk ted fellow sarah parcak introduces the field of space archaeology using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past civilizations. This talk was presented at an official ted conference and was featured by our editors on the home page.
In short it most resembles the literary version of a ted talk. Sarah parcak wants to get that down to a few minutes. Help authorities get there first.
But as the literature of the scientific revolution science fiction adopts archaeological themes to illustrate the concepts of deep time and cosmic indifference as well as to provide sensawunda. Parcak is a space archaeologist which means she spends her days looking for buried archaeological sites in high resolution imagery. She uses satellite imagery to track looted ancient burial sites and find pyramids hidden under egyptian cities.
Welcome to the 21st century world of space archaeology in which culturally important ruins can be spotted and decoded via high resolution images captured by earth orbiting satellites. Become a space archaeologist and document threats to ancient sites. Archaeology from space is above all a fun and inspiring book.
Now she has bigger plans. I do not necessarily mean this in a negative sense.