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Author Parcak, Sarah H., author.

Title Archaeology from space : how the future shapes our past / Sarah Parcak.

Publisher New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019.

ISBN 9781250198280 (hardcover)



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 Kent Branch Adult  930.1 Par    AVAILABLE  ---
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Edition First edition.
Description 277 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Time capsule -- History of space archaeology -- Shaking foundations -- A risky business -- Digging in the wrong place -- A grand tour -- Empires fall -- A capital discovery -- A revolution in our backyard -- Crowdsourcing us -- The future of the past.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject(S) Archaeology -- Remote sensing.
Artificial satellites in remote sensing.
Aerial photography in archaeology.
Space photography.
ISBN 9781250198280 (hardcover)