Sarah Parcak: Space Archeologist Wizard Genius = The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

[L. Coyote]

[juxtaposed]

1. friends and i were doing this back in the late 80's

[L. Coyote]

4. That was early. I started in earnest after Google earth started.

Before that, aerial imagery was difficult to access. Even good maps were work to find and access, and often meant long-distance research trips to major universities.

Now, I have thousands of ancient monuments placemarked and can zoom right in on them:

Ancient Monument Placemarks
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The golden mean latitude of Qin's mausoleum, feng shui on a global scale.
Download qin.kml for Google earth.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. Very cool....

Tanis used to be the capital of Egypt.

[maddiemom]

3. So impressive!

The enthusiasm and slight quaver in Pacek's voice indicates her real enthusiasm for her subject. Thank Steven Colbert for allowing the worthy discussion of subjects beyond mindless show business and politics.

My niece is an archaeologist. Although she had access to some Central and South American sites while in school and beyond, she's mostly worked doing "digs" on U.S. sites before construction and development for her day to day living. She, nonetheless, has the option of being offered more exotic work internationally. I may be somewhat wrong on the details..sorry C.L. As a retired teacher, this is not a field I'd ever thought of guiding students toward. aAn interest beyond a glamorous Indiana Jones in this field should be given some information and material.

[dembotoz]

5. she does stuff like this .......and i sell telecom and internet plans....think i wanna drink now

maybe several


she looks absurdly bright

[longship]

6. OMG! What an incredible interview.

And Stephen gets an Indiana Jones hat. And it looks good on him.

R&K