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Sarah Parcak Quotes

American - Scientist | -

Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.

Understanding Archaeology Where Come

In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.

Time Past House Temple Everything

If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time.

Time River Think You Look Egypt

We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they're obscured by modernization, forests, or soil.

Help Soil Map Never Ground Seen

What we did is we used NASA topography data to map out the landscape, very subtle changes. We started to be able to see where the Nile used to flow.

Data Landscape NASA Flow Map See

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

Sand Pictures Play Never Pretty Dig

The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining.

Technology Water Short You Earth

We emphasise the features on satellite maps by adding colours to farmland, urban structures, archaeological sites, vegetation and water.

Water Maps Urban Structures Colours

You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible. You're actually able to see settlements and tombs - and even things like buried pyramids - that you might not otherwise be able to see.

World You Back Become Invisible See

All over the world, we're finding out that, you know, whether it's Egypt or Syria or Central America, what satellites are showing is that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of previously unknown settlements all over the world, and what archaeology does, it helps us to understand this common humanity that we have.

World America Finding Humanity You

Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis.

Change Weather Think Ice Map Show

A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.

Words Picture Worth Image Million

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