Sarah Parcak > Quotes

“Nothing ever disappears forever, it seems, except socks.”
― Sarah Parcak, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

“Consider that in most post-apocalyptic movies, you see hordes of bad guys wearing leather, riding motorcycles, armed to the teeth, and living in bad-guy strongholds. I always wonder where their underlying support system is and ask about the thousands of people tanning their clothing, processing the fuel for their vehicles, and working in the fields to feed them. Whenever”
― Sarah Parcak, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

“Sites are not static. They are akin to a filmstrip through time, in which building and destruction alternate, sometimes concurrently.”
― Sarah Parcak, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

“Our bodies are living archaeological sites, connected to the past and future simultaneously”
― Sarah Parcak, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

“when facing a featureless sea of brown silt, or modern fields, or a mound beneath dense rainforest, the challenge is where to begin. This is the exact question space archaeology has evolved to answer.”
― Sarah Parcak, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

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

“Access to academic research represents one of the greatest hurdles to budding scientists across the world”
― Sarah Parcak, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

“In a recent Nature publication, a team led by archaeologist Jonas Gregorio de Souza announced 81 previously unknown pre-Columbian sites in the Amazon basin area of Brazil, using satellite imagery and ground surveys.”
― Sarah Parcak, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

“We thrive when multiple cultures intertwine and morph into something different, with more layers. We are better and stronger as a species for our diversity”
― Sarah Parcak, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

“Understanding how and why our diversity is essential to our survival has become that much more important in a fractured world, where people push against economic immigrants, refugees, and those with different religious or cultural traditions.”
― Sarah Parcak, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

“people brought to Iceland by Scandinavian Vikings as slaves, farming communities expanded across Iceland quickly.”
― Sarah Parcak, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past