{"id":116743,"date":"2020-12-06T08:23:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/how-keen-eyes-and-smart-satellites-help-archaeologists-find-hidden-wonders"},"modified":"2020-12-06T08:23:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T16:23:32","slug":"how-keen-eyes-and-smart-satellites-help-archaeologists-find-hidden-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/how-keen-eyes-and-smart-satellites-help-archaeologists-find-hidden-wonders","title":{"rendered":"How Keen Eyes And Smart Satellites Help Archaeologists Find Hidden Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-keen-eyes-and-smart-satellites-help-archaeologists-find-hidden-wonders.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>National Geographic<\/em> magazines and Indiana Jones movies might have you picturing archaeologists excavating near Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and Machu Picchu. And some of us do work at these famous places.<\/p>\n<p>But archaeologists <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=HtKKK9AAAAAJ&hl=en\">like<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&user=7JZmEuwAAAAJ\">us<\/a> want to learn about how people from the past lived all over the planet.<\/p>\n<p>We rely on left-behind artifacts to help fill out that picture. We need to excavate in places where there\u2019s evidence of human activity \u2013 those clues from the past aren\u2019t always as obvious as a giant pyramid, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic magazines and Indiana Jones movies might have you picturing archaeologists excavating near Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and Machu Picchu. And some of us do work at these famous places. But archaeologists like us want to learn about how people from the past lived all over the planet. We rely on left-behind artifacts to help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}