"Sarah Parcak, an anthropologist at the University of Alabama and a National Geographic fellow, calls what she does “space archaeology.”
“We are at a tipping point right now, with conflict in the Middle East, with climate change and polluting and looting, where antiquities are really threatened. … If we don’t protect these sites, some of them are going to be gone.”
“But we are also at a tipping point where we have all these incredible technologies” she continued. “And we can use them” to identify sites and track looters."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...mepage%2Fstory
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More detail: from 2014
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“We are at a tipping point right now, with conflict in the Middle East, with climate change and polluting and looting, where antiquities are really threatened. … If we don’t protect these sites, some of them are going to be gone.”
“But we are also at a tipping point where we have all these incredible technologies” she continued. “And we can use them” to identify sites and track looters."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...mepage%2Fstory
[YT]YFC5CwZVCEw[/YT]
More detail: from 2014
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