Space archaeology (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Out-of-the-Box: Investigating the Edge of the Discipline" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The practice of archaeology in outer space seems as far "outside the box" as it is possible for the discipline to go. There are major challenges to carrying out field research in off-Earth contexts – among them, remoteness, hostile conditions, cost, and the demonstrable bias of space agencies against the social...
Archaeology in Outer Space: The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International Space Station (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On 14 January 2022, NASA astronaut Kayla Barron placed adhesive tape on the walls of the International Space Station (ISS), marking the sample locations for the first archaeological work to be conducted in outer space. Over 60 days, ISS crew documented the station’s in situ material culture through daily photography of six areas. This payload, developed by...
A New Methodology for Archaeological Investigation of Human Activity in Space: The International Space Station Archaeological Project (2018)
Our project is the first major archaeological study of a space habitat: the International Space Station. It is a locus of intercultural interaction at the level of both individuals and states, "a microsociety in a miniworld" (National Academy of Sciences 1972). Remoteness and cost are obstacles to employing traditional archaeological techniques in Earth orbit, so we are developing new methodologies. Chief among these is the use of the millions of images generated by space agencies showing life...