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I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
George Lucas
You
People
Fear
Sense
Archaeological
Gives
Mythology
Come
Conclusion
Form
Psychology
Really
Believes
About 15,000 years ago, humans colonised America, wiping out in the process about 75% of its large mammals. Numerous other species disappeared from Africa, from Eurasia, and from the myriad islands around their coasts. The archaeological record of country after country tells the same sad story.
Yuval Noah Harari
Sad
Country
Numerous
Other
Out
Tells
Archaeological
Record
About
Myriad
Disappeared
Sad Story
Around
Islands
Years
Years Ago
Mammals
America
Same
Africa
After
Process
Story
Large
Species
Humans
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.
Camille Paglia
History
Long
Thinking
Ancient
Archaeological
Terms
Because
Always
Greece
Persia
Egypt
Rome
View
Orientation
Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.
Alan Stern
History
Solar
Dig
Solar System
System
Archaeological
Like
Going
The History Of
Belt
I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.
Sarah Parcak
World
Find
Archaeological
Features
Over
Surprised
Left
Sites
Being
Keep
Amount
It's an important tool to focus where we're excavating. It gives us a much bigger perspective on archaeological sites. We have to think bigger, and that's what the satellites allow us to do.
Sarah Parcak
Perspective
Focus
Important
Think
Tool
Archaeological
Gives
Allow
Important Tool
Sites
Where
Bigger
Us
Much
Satellites
We emphasise the features on satellite maps by adding colours to farmland, urban structures, archaeological sites, vegetation and water.
Sarah Parcak
Water
Adding
Archaeological
Structures
Features
Colours
Vegetation
Sites
Urban
Farmland
Satellite
Maps
If you find a series of linear shapes in the same alignment as known archaeological features, and they match excavated examples, you still need to excavate to confirm, but you can be fairly sure that the imagery is accurate.
Sarah Parcak
You
Alignment
Find
Archaeological
Examples
Features
Shapes
Fairly
Known
Sure
Match
Still
Linear
Accurate
Same
Confirm
Series
Imagery
Need
What if Hiram Bingham had the technology to find hundreds of other archaeological sites at the same time and create entire 3-D maps of the ancient landscape accurate to within a few inches?
Sarah Parcak
Time
Technology
Few
Other
Hundreds
Ancient
Find
Archaeological
Entire
Had
Within
Accurate
What If
Same
Sites
Same Time
Create
Landscape
Inches
Maps
The most exciting part of what I do is understanding the scale of what we don't know. There are just countless archaeological sites all over the world, and one of the most important and best ways of finding them is using digital technology.
Sarah Parcak
Best
Technology
World
Digital
Important
Understanding
Digital Technology
Ways
Scale
Finding
Archaeological
Part
Exciting
Countless
Over
Know
Most
Sites
Just
The Most Important
Them
Using
My dream is to map every archaeological site in the world because, if we can do that, then we have this massive global data base that all sorts of global heritage organizations and heritage organizations within countries can use, and they can use that information to protect what's there.
Sarah Parcak
World
Every
Heritage
Dream
Archaeological
Data
Countries
Global
Massive
Protect
Sort
Because
Within
Site
Information
Then
Use
Organizations
Map
Base
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
Zahi Hawass
Mind
Past
Our
Evidence
Archaeological
About
Open
Open Mind
Ideas
Scientists
Base
Keep
So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
Pardis Sabeti
Today
Me
People
World
Living
Ancestors
Has-Been
Archaeological
Physical
Record
Data
Chart
Physical World
Investigate
Deluge
Genetic
New
Territory
Been
Years
Years Ago
Get
New Territory
Happened
Forms
Much
Really
Explored
Lets
Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.
Joseph Needham
Daily
Archaeological
More
Almost
Calendar
Although
Scientific
Still
Historical
Very
Than
Literature
Interest
Chinese
Much
Large
Growing
Suggest