Maps for Time Travelers: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Bring Us Closer to the Past

By Mark D. McCoy

Book Overview

Popular culture is full of movies, books, and television shows that address our collective curiosity about what the world was like long ago. Audiences are captivated by stories that imagine the past, whether historical dramas or science-fiction tales of time travel. But what if there were a field of study that could create an even more detailed picture of the world before our time? Written by a preeminent expert in geospatial archaeology. Maps for Time Travelers Illuminates how technology is revolutionizing the way archaeologists reconstruct humanity's past. Using innovations such as satellite imagery and 3-D modeling, archaeologists are able to answer questions about how our ancestors traveled, fed themselves, and structured societies. Archaeologists are creators of maps for time travelers-for everyone who wonders about the distant past. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520389727
• ISBN13: 9780520389724
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"