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Archaeology from Space

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by Sarah Parcak


  Endeavor (space shuttle)

  epigraphy

  Erik the Red

  Eritrea

  ER Mapper (software)

  Estrada-Belli, Francisco

  Ethiopian plateau

  ethnoarchaeology

  Et-Till

  Europe

  aerial photos of

  Easter Island and

  Evans, Damian

  Everglades

  excavation (digs). See also sites; and specific excavations

  accommodations and food at

  budget and

  challenges of

  context and

  core staff and

  deciding where to begin

  first, at Mendes

  following, online

  management of

  permitting and

  record keeping at

  specialists at

  students and field-schools at

  supply transportation

  surprises at

  test

  time limits on

  volunteering at

  weather and

  work crews at

  experimental archaeology

  extraterrestrials

  Eyewire

  Eyjolf the Foul

  Facebook

  facial recognition

  facts, truth vs.

  Falcon Heavy

  “false color”

  false door of Intef

  Farasan Islands

  Farouk, Omer

  Fawcett, Percy

  Feast of Wagy

  Feathers, James

  field boundaries

  fieldwalking

  First Intermediate Period (FIP)

  First Nations

  Flanders Heritage Agency

  Flannery, Kent

  Florida

  Ford, Harrison

  forestry

  fossil-rich deposits

  4.2 ka BP event

  France

  Fundación OACUNAM

  furnace or hearth

  GalaxyZoo

  Gale, Edwin “Hockey”

  Garamantes civilization

  gates (site type)

  Gathings, Dave

  Gebel Barkal site

  gender archaeology

  Genographic Project

  geoarchaeologists

  GeoEye-1 imagery

  GeoEye Foundation

  geoglyphs

  georeferencing

  Georgia Department of Natural Resources

  geospatial analysis

  Germany

  Nazi

  Gerstenblith, Patty

  Ghaggar-Hara channel

  Giza

  GlobalXplorer (GX)

  gold

  gold falcon pectoral

  gold mining

  Google Earth

  Google Ngram Viewer

  GPS location data

  grave goods

  Great Zimbabwe site

  Greece

  Green family

  Greenland

  grid system

  ground-based remote sensing

  ground-penetrating radar (GPR)

  ground surveys

  cost of

  ground-truthing

  Guatemala

  Gulf of Saint Lawrence

  Guo Huadong

  Gupta, Sanjeev

  Haakon, Duke of Norway

  Haight, Molly

  Hall, Frank

  Hanson, Katharyn

  haptic technology

  Hathor (Egyptian goddess)

  Heckenberger, Michael

  Helena, Saint

  Helluland

  Herakleopolis

  Herculaneum

  Herodotus

  Hieroglyphics

  high-resolution imagery

  Hissarlik

  History Channel

  Hobby Lobby

  Hohokam canal system

  hollow ways

  Holmul

  Holt, Andy

  Holt-Brook, Sabina

  Homeland Security Department

  homo erectus

  Hop

  Horne, Tom

  Horus, temple of (Tanis)

  Hranf the Dueller

  Hu, N. K.

  Huari culture

  human ancestors

  Hummel, Rexine

  Hunt, Terry

  hyperspectral imaging

  ice-core dating

  Iceland

  Icelandic sagas

  IKONOS

  Iliad (Homer)

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

  India

  Indiana Jones films

  Indian Institute of Technology

  Indigenous cultures

  Amazonian

  Easter Island

  Mayan

  North American

  Indonesia

  Indus Valley Civilization

  infrared imagery

  Ingstad, Anne Stine

  Ingstad, Helge

  Intef (military man), looted tomb of

  Intef (son of Ankhtifi)

  International Conference on Satellite Archaeology (Beijing, 2004)

  International Space Station

  Inuit

  Ipi (Intef’s mother)

  Iran

  Iraq

  Iraqi Kurdistan

  iron

  iron hydroxides

  Islamic Period Nilometers

  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

  Israel

  Italy

  Itj-Tawy. See also Lisht

  Jericho

  Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  jewelry

  Johns, Chris

  Johnson, Katharine

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Jones, Doris May

  Jordan

  Jordanian Department of Antiquities

  Juyan Oasis

  Karima

  Karnak

  Keay, Simon

  Kennedy, David

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kenya

  Kenyon, Kathleen

  Kersel, Morag

  Khartoum

  Khmer Empire

  Khnum-Nakht mummy

  Khonsu (Egyptian god)

  Khouli, Mousa “Morris”

  Kinect technology

  kivas

  Labrador

  Lahun

  Lake Abhe

  Lake Huron

  Lake Manzala

  Lake Tana

  Lake Turkana

  Lake Victoria

  Lake Zway-Shala

  Lancashire, England

  Landsat satellites

  Landsat-1

  Landsat-8

  Landsat Island

  landscape

  scanning devices for

  L’Anse aux Meadows site

  LANYARD

  lapis lazuli

  large-scale satellites

  Lasaponara, Rosa

  lasers

  Late Period

  Late Ptolemaic Period

  Late Roman Empire

  Late Roman Period

  Leakey, Louis

  Leakey, Louise

  Leakey, Maeve

  Leakey, Mary

  Leakey, Richard

  Lebanon

  Lee, Christine

  Lehr, Deborah

  letters, ancient

  Levantine Ceramics Project

  Lewis, Joseph, III

  LGBTQ+

  Li, X.

  Libya

  Libyan tribes

  LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging)

  hyperspectral cameras and

  3-D maps and

  light spectrum. See also electromagnetic spectrum; infrared imagery

  limestone fragments

  linguistic exogamy

  Lipo, Carl

  Lisht

  cemeteries and pyramids at

  coring near

  excavation at looted tomb at

  mapping tombs at

  modern ci
ty of

  record registration at

  reuse of inscribed blocks at

  search for Itj-Tawy at

  SRTM 3-D models and

  lithic stone tools

  Little Ice Age (1450)

  looting

  analysis of, in Egypt

  causes of

  crowdsourcing to detect

  Itj-Tawy or Lisht and

  Jordan and

  mapping, from space

  Peru and

  preventing

  tiny robots to explore

  Louis IX, King of France

  Lower Egypt

  Luxor (Thebes)

  Lyminge project

  ma’at (divine balance)

  Mabila

  MacGinnis, John

  machine learning

  Machu Picchu

  magnetometry

  Maine

  Mallowan, Max

  Man and His Past (Crawford)

  Manchester Museum

  Mansoura

  Mansoura, Battle at

  manuscripts, ancient

  Mapela Hill

  Maritime Archaic culture

  Markland

  Mars

  mastaba (tomb)

  Mattingly, David

  Maya

  Maya Biosphere Reserve

  McRae, Georgia

  Mediterranean

  Memphis

  Mendes

  Mentuhotep II

  Meredith-Williams, Matthew

  Mertz, Barbara (Elizabeth Peters)

  Meryt (Tell Ibrahim Awad woman)

  Mesopotamia

  metal production

  metal ring pin

  Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Mexico

  Microsoft

  Middle East

  Middle Kingdom

  artistic explosion and

  Middle Woodland culture

  mining sites

  Minnesota

  Mississippi Conference (1984)

  mitochondrial DNA

  moai sculptures

  Mo’alla

  Mondo Robot

  monsoon rainfalls

  Montet, Pierre

  Monuments Men

  mortuary cults

  Mubarak, Hosni

  Mueller, Tom

  multispectral imagery

  merging with panchromatic

  Mumford, Gregory

  mummies

  Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (Egyptian Museum)

  Museum of the Bible

  Musk, Elon

  Mut (Egyptian goddess)

  temple of, at Tanis

  Nakht-Ankh mummy

  Napoleonic expedition

  NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

  Space Archaeology program

  National Geographic Magazine

  National Geographic Society

  National Museum of Iraq

  National Science Foundation

  National Stolen Property Act (Egypt)

  Nature

  Nazca lines

  Neanderthals

  Near East

  near infrared

  Nectanebo II

  neolithic sites

  New England

  Newfoundland

  New Kingdom

  New York Times

  Nile

  ancient branches of

  failure of

  flooding of

  Mendesian branch of

  relic courses of

  Sebennytic branch of

  shifting and silting of

  Tanitic branch of

  Nile Delta. See also Lisht; Mendes; Tell Tebilla; Tanis; and other specific sites

  ancient rivers and

  archaeological losses in

  cattle estates in

  first dig at Mendes in

  flooding and drought in

  Persian invasion of

  settlement patterns in

  workwomen in

  Nilometers

  nomarchs

  North America

  North Carolina

  North House, Papa Stour

  Nubia

  nutrition. See also diet

  obsidian

  ocean drones

  ocher

  Okasha, Adel

  Old Kingdom

  collapse of

  on-site specialists

  open-access imagery

  open-access journals

  OpenROV ocean drone

  Operation Mummy’s Curse

  optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)

  Osiris (Egyptian god)

  osteoarchaeological analysis. See also bones

  Ostia

  Ouimet, William

  oxygen isotope analysis

  Oxyrhynchus

  Pachacamac

  PACUNAM LiDAR Initiative

  Pakistan

  paleobotanists

  Paleolithic period

  Palestine

  Palmyra

  panchromatic data

  pansharpening

  Papa Stour

  Pappu, Shanti

  Parcak, Aaron

  pareidolia

  Parks Canada

  Pärssinen, Martti

  Pavlish, Larry

  Pepi I

  Pepi II

  Per-Banebdjedet

  permitting

  Persians

  Peru

  Peruvian Ministry of Culture

  Peters, Elizabeth

  Petra Junior Rangers

  Petra National Trust

  Petrie, Cameron

  phase-contrast X-ray imaging

  Philae island

  Phoenix, Arizona

  photographs. See also aerial photographs; and specific satellites; and types of satellite imagery

  automatic uploading of

  dig site

  physical anthropologists

  Pi-Ramesses

  Piramide Naranjada

  pixels

  planets, archaeology on other

  plantations

  plant remains

  platform mounds

  Poidebard, Father Antoine

  point cloud data

  Point Rosee

  Polynesia

  Pompeii

  Portus

  pottery

  processual archaeology

  Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act (2016)

  Provincial Archaeology Office of Newfoundland and Labrador

  Psamtik, King

  Psusennes I

  Ptolemaic period

  Punt

  Purépecha people

  Pyramid Age

  Pyramid Texts

  Qakare Ibi, King

  Qalatga Darband, lost city of

  Queen of the Desert (film)

  Qufti people

  QuickBird

  radar data

  radiocarbon dating

  Raghava KK

  Raiders of the Lost Ark (film)

  Ramesses II

  Ramses VI

  Ramses XI

  Rapa Nui civilization

  recession of 2009

  recycling

  “red edge” bands

  Redford, Donald

  Red Pyramid at Dashur

  Red Sea

  Old Kingdom fortress on

  shell-midden sites

  Re (Egyptian god)

  Registan Desert

  Reilly, Tom

  remote excavations

  remote sensing. See also specific types

  drones and

  first used in archaeology

  revolution in, post-WWII

  remote-sensing specialists

  research design

  resistivity

  Rhoda Island

  Riley, Melanie

  rivers and water sources, ancient

  Robinson, Amy

  robotics

  Roman Period Egypt

  Rome, ancient

  Ro-nefer

  Ro
setta Stone

  rubber sheeting

  Saeed, Abdullah Al-

  Saga of Erik the Red

  Saga of the Greenlanders

  Sahara

  Sais

  San el Hagar

  Saqqara

  looting in

  sarcophagi

  Satellite Archaeology Hall of Fame

  satellite imagery. See space archaeology; and specific satellites; and imagery types

  Saudi Arabia

  Scalera, Mary Marguerite

  scarabs

  Schliemann, Heinrich

  Schwarz, Fred

  Science

  Scotland

  Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

  seeds

  semiprecious stones

  Senwosret I

  pyramid of

  settlement archaeology

  Settlement Exhibition Reykjavík 871 +/−2

  Sever, Tom

  shabti figurines

  Shakespeare scholarship

  Sharpe, Philip Henry

  Sheets, Payson

  Shesep-Amun-Tayes-Herit, Lady

  Sheshonq (biblical Shishak)

  Shetland Islands

  shipwreck mappings

  Showalter, Pamela

  Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)

  Siem Reap

  signature databases

  Silk Road

  silver sarcophagus

  Sinai

  Singh, Ajit

  Siskiyou County, California

  sites. See also excavation; and specific sites

  categorization of

  defined

  destruction of (see also looting)

  finding

  record keeping and

  as time machines

  time needed to map and excavate

  site supervisors

  site survey

  Sithathoryunet, Princess

  Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey

  Sloan Digital Sky Survey

  Smendes, King

  Sneferu, King

  soapstone vessels

  Society of Antiquaries

  soil scientists

  solar radiation

  Sopdet (Sirius)

  Soto, Hernando de

  South Africa

  South America

  Southwest, American

  “Spacecraft Detects Sahara’s Buried Past” (McHugh)

  space archaeology. See also CORONA satellite; Landsat satellites; LIDAR; NASA; WorldView satellites; and specific sites; technologies; and types of imagery

  “Aha” moments

  analyzing data with help of computer scientists

  choice of career in

  defined

  efficiency of, vs. ground surveys

  finding new sites through

  future of

  grant proposals and

  ground-truthing and

  GX crowdsourcing and

  history of

  looting documented with

  machine learning and

  miniaturized tools for

  named by NASA

  perspective gained from

  question of where to begin digging and

  satellite imagery and

  scope of

  season and weather and

  timing and

  types of imagery and

  what can’t be determined through

  spectrometer, handheld

  Spindle whorl, Viking

  SPOT (Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre)

  spy satellite data sets

  Star Wars films

  State Department

  “St. Augustine’s Cross”

 

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