![]() ![]() “The big dream is that ultimately we will map the entire world," Parcak said. Working with a team of researchers, Parcak plans to turn the world’s children and adults into space archaeologists by developing an online program that makes use of satellite imagery and crowd-sourcing to record new archaeological sites and map looting activity. The resulting data will then be shared with archaeologists and government authorities, says Parcak, director of the Laboratory for Global Observation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a National Geographic Fellow. They have pressed government leaders to post police guards at major sites, crack down on the networks of antiquity smugglers, and issue red alerts on plundered artifacts.īut today American space archaeologist Sarah Parcak, winner of the $1 million TED Prize, announced that she will spend the money on developing a fresh approach to the problem-a cutting-edge computer technology for combating looting. For years, archaeologists have waged a desperate global battle against the looting of ancient sites and the ransacking of humanity’s past. ![]()
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