Archaeology and Planetary Science: Entering a New Era of Interdisciplinary Research

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Dec 2007

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #P41A-0203

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0473 Paleoclimatology And Paleoceanography (3344, 4900), 4946 Milankovitch Theory, 5200 Planetary Sciences: Astrobiology, 5464 Remote Sensing, 6022 Impact Phenomena (5420, 8136)

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Recent studies highlight the widening intersection between planetary and archaeological investigations, which will provide new avenues of funding and research for planetary scientists in the coming decades. Emergent research areas fall into five primary categories: 1) Enhancing anthropological investigations by utilizing planetary remote sensing techniques; 2) Mining archaeological sites and/or the anthropological record for data in support of planetary events, (e.g. asteroid or comet impacts,); 3) Industrial archaeology as it relates to planetary exploration (e.g. Apollo-era spacecraft design and the Atomic Energy Commission's Nuclear Rocket Development Station); 4) Archaeoastronomy, as historical and pre-historical astronomical artifacts relate to planetary axial orientation and pleistocene/holocene climatology; and 5) The nascent field of astrobiological xenoarchaeology, which centers on the proposed methods of investigation should ongoing planetary exploration yield evidence of astrobiological life. Recent research projects are reviewed, the implications for current planetary/archaeological research are addressed, and directions for future interdisciplinary research are discussed.

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