by Sarah Parcak
stereoscope
Sterry, Martin
St Joseph, J. K.
Stone, Elizabeth
Stonehenge
Strutt, Kristian
subsurface-sensing
Sudan
Sustainable Preservation Initiative (SPI)
Sutlej River
Syria
Tale of Sinuhe
Tampa Museum of Art
Tanis (biblical Zoan)
ancient watercourses and
big picture on
daily life at
ground-truthing at
high- vs. low-resolution data on
modern cities and
Napoleonic expeditions and
Nile flooding and
satellite mapping of
size of
temple complex at
test excavation at
Tapajós Basin
taxes, ancient Egypt and
TED
Conference (Vancouver, 2016)
Prize
teeth
enamel hypoplasia
dental plaque
Tell Akhdar
Tell Ibrahim Awad
Tell Sharufa
Tell Tebilla
CORONA imagery and
excavating wall at
Temple Blair
terrorism
Thailand
Thebes, war vs. Herakleopolitans. See also Luxor
Thematic Mapper Simulator
Theon (ancient letter writer)
thermal infrared imagery
Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner
thermoluminescence (TL)
Third Intermediate Period
Thomas, David
Thoresson, Lord Thorvald
3-D imagery
3-D reconstructions
Tiber River
Tiffany, Joseph
Tikal
TIROS (Television Infrared Observation Satellite)
Tombs of the Nobles (Luxor)
Toolesboro Mounds National Historic Landmark
total station
Trajan, Emperor
tree-ring dating
tree species, chemical signatures and
triremes
Troy
Tulip Hill plantation
Tunisia
turf buildings
Turkana Basin (Kenya)
Turkey
Turner, Val
turquoise
Tuskaloosa, Chief
Tutankhamun
Ubar, lost city of
Udall, Stewart
ultrasonic waves
Umayyad period
underwater archaeology
UNESCO
World Heritage sites
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Upper Egypt
Upper Xingu
US Agency for International Development (USAID)
US Army
US Congress
Uses of Air Photography, The (St Joseph)
Valley of the Kings
vegetation
Vesuvius, Mount
Vietnam
Vikings
Vikings (History Channel show)
Vinland
Wales
Wallace, Birgitta
Wallace, Rob
Washington Post
weather satellites
Weishampel, John
West Africa
Western Asia
Western Desert (Egypt)
Western Isles (Scotland)
Western Settlement (Greenland)
White Nile
wild olive trees
Windsor Antiquities
Wiseman, James
WorldView satellites
WorldView-1
WorldView-2
WorldView-3
WorldView-4
World War I
World War II
worldwide database of sites
Wye Hall plantation
Young, Harold
Youth Engagement Petra Program
“Z,” lost city of
Zaghloul, Elsayed Abbas
Zaire
Zenobia, Empress
Zimbabwe
Zooniverse
About the Author
SARAH PARCAK is a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She serves as the founder and president of GlobalXplorer, a nonprofit dedicated to using cutting-edge technologies to protect and preserve our shared cultural heritage. She is the co-director of the Joint Lisht Mission with Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities, focusing on the excavation and survey of Egypt’s Middle Kingdom capital, and she has worked on archaeological projects across the globe. She wrote the first textbook on the field of satellite archaeology, Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology, and has published many peer-reviewed scientific papers. Her research has been featured in multiple BBC Discovery and PBS Nova documentaries, as well as in talks on TED.com. Sarah is a National Geographic Explorer, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and the winner of the 2016 million-dollar TED Prize. She is a Young Global Leader, TED Senior Fellow, and recipient of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award and the Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award. Sarah lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband, Greg Mumford, her son, Gabriel, and her beloved cats. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Note to Readers
Introduction
1. Time Capsule
2. Space Archaeology
3. The Promise of Space Archaeology
4. A Risky Business
5. Digging in the Wrong Place
6. A Grand Tour
7. Empires Fall
8. A Capital Discovery
9. The Future of the Past
10. The Challenge
11. Stolen Heritage
12. Space Archaeology for Everyone
Acknowledgments
Photos
Notes
Index
About the Author
Copyright
ARCHAEOLOGY FROM SPACE: HOW THE FUTURE SHAPES OUR PAST. Copyright © 2019 by Sarah Parcak. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
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Cover design by Nicolette Seeback
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Parcak, Sarah H., author.
Title: Archaeology from space: how the future shapes our past / Sarah Parcak.
Description: First edition. | New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018040565 | ISBN 9781250198280 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Archaeology—Remote sensing. | Artificial satellites in remote sensing. | Aerial photography in archaeology. | Space photography.
Classification: LCC CC76.4 .P36 2019 | DDC 930.1—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018040565
e-ISBN 9781250198297
First Edition: July 2019
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