SciShow: To Study Ancient Humans, Archeologists Are Using... What?!

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Content of the Lesson: When you think about archaeology, space technology probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But from satellites to cosmic rays, archaeologists actually look to space a lot more than you might think! Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/05/satellite-imagery-uncovers-17-lost-egyptian-pyramids https://archive.archaeology.org/1007/etc/caracol.html https://www.wired.com/2016/02/sarah-parcak/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-13522957 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/satellite-evidence-of-archaeological-site-looting-in-egypt-20022013/D23EA939FC4767D8BF50CAC6DE96D005 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0188589 https://www.geekwire.com/2016/vikings-unearthed-satellite-lost-village-north-america/ http://www.unesco-hist.org/uploads/files/20160125/Lasaponara-Masini%20et%20al_2011_38_Cahuachi.pdf [PDF] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/02/maya-laser-lidar-guatemala-pacunam/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313004342 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440314004105 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440312005420 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120827-the-laser-archaeologists http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.408.4426&rep=rep1&type=pdf [PDF] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24647 https://www.nature.com/news/cosmic-ray-particles-reveal-secret-chamber-in-egypt-s-great-pyramid-1.22939 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/cosmic-rays-reveal-unknown-void-great-pyramid-giza http://princetoninnovation.org/magazine/2018/04/03/cosmic-rays-and-archaeology/ http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/reviews/donoghue325.html Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crops_Kansas_AST_20010624.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_Gizah_Pyramids.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amazon_Canopy_Comes_to_Life_through_Laser_Data.webm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LIDAR-scanned-SICK-LMS-animation.gif https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1279 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_impression_of_supernova_1993J.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kheops-Pyramid.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Pyramid_Diagram.svg


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