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Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space

24 Mar 2021 17 published claims 2 attributable people
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02 / belief

I would say that 100 percent of the emails I get from people in Scandinavia, whether it’s Denmark, Norway, or Sweden — in particular, Norway — people in Norway are really good at finding potential Viking ships in their fields.

“I would say that 100 percent of the emails I get from people in Scandinavia, whether it’s Denmark, Norway, or Sweden — in particular, Norway — people in Norway are really good at finding potential Viking ships in their fields.”
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Sarah Parcak
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05 / belief

I think, with our own application of physics and chemistry and biology and computation machine learning — putting all these new tools to use, looking at the past, we’re far better able to understand all of their diverse technologies.

“I think, with our own application of physics and chemistry and biology and computation machine learning — putting all these new tools to use, looking at the past, we’re far better able to understand all of their diverse technologies.”
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Sarah Parcak
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06 / observation

My colleagues have used this to find tens of thousands of new features and sites in Central America and Cambodia and many, many other places in the world. It’s the only way to see through trees.

“My colleagues have used this to find tens of thousands of new features and sites in Central America and Cambodia and many, many other places in the world. It’s the only way to see through trees.”
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Sarah Parcak
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10 / commitment

I’ve talked a lot to the villagers that work at Lisht because many of them were involved — not just them, but the people from the surrounding area — they were involved in looting post–Arab Spring, so in 2011.

“I’ve talked a lot to the villagers that work at Lisht because many of them were involved — not just them, but the people from the surrounding area — they were involved in looting post–Arab Spring, so in 2011.”
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Sarah Parcak
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12 / evaluation

It was the god Hapi. So, if we think of their religion, in some ways, as their science and how they understood the changes in the world around them, I think that’s how we can better understand why they did what they did and why they believed what they believed.

“It was the god Hapi. So, if we think of their religion, in some ways, as their science and how they understood the changes in the world around them, I think that’s how we can better understand why they did what they did and why they believed what they believed.”
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Sarah Parcak
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14 / preference

My core staff — it’s a joint mission with the Ministry of Antiquities, so it means that I have an Egyptian co-director, and you have to have really close working relationships with local villagers because, ultimately, they’re the ones who are the stewards and guardians of these sites, and they’ve, in many cases, never had a chance to connect with these places, and there’s a lot of economic opportunity there, so I think we have to tread very carefully.

“My core staff — it’s a joint mission with the Ministry of Antiquities, so it means that I have an Egyptian co-director, and you have to have really close working relationships with local villagers because, ultimately, they’re the ones who are the stewards and guardians of these sites, and they’ve, in many cases, never had a chance to connect with these places, and there’s a lot of economic opportunity there, so I think we have to tread very carefully.”
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Sarah Parcak
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17 / recommendation

I would say you’ve got to hit Pompei and Herculaneum just because they’re so well preserved, and it’s like you are walking around an old European village or town, and you just get a sense of how people lived.

“I would say you’ve got to hit Pompei and Herculaneum just because they’re so well preserved, and it’s like you are walking around an old European village or town, and you just get a sense of how people lived.”
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Sarah Parcak
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Conversations with Tyler
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