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.