Editors:
- Up-to-date review of the emerging disciplines of Space Archaeology and Space Heritage by the foremost US and international authors and creators of the field
- The authors encapsulate various ways of looking at the archaeology of both fixed and mobile human artifacts in the solar system
- As missions continue into space, it is the appropriate time to address questions about the meaning and significance of the material culture
Part of the book series: Space and Society (SPSO)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents the research of the foremost scholars in the field of space archaeology and heritage, a recent discipline of the field of Space Archaeology and Heritage. It provides the emerging archaeological perspective on the history of the human exploration of space. Since humans have been creating a vast archaeological preserve in space and on other celestial bodies. This assemblage of heritage objects and sites attest to the human presence off the Earth and the study of these material remains are best investigated by archaeologists and historic preservationists. As space exploration has reached the half century mark, it is the appropriate time to reflect on the major events and technological development of this particular unique 20th century arena of human history.
The authors encapsulate various ways of looking at the archaeology of both fixed and mobile human artifacts in the solar system. As missions continue into space, and as private ventures gear up for public and tourist visits to space and to the Moon and even Mars, it is the appropriate time to address questions about the meaning and significance of this material culture.
Editors and Affiliations
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Anthropology, New Mexico State University at Las Cruce, Las Cruces, USA
Beth Laura O’Leary
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Division of Social Sciences,, Penn State University Abington College, Abington, PA, USA
P. J. Capelotti
About the editors
B.L. O’Leary is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. From 2003 – 2011 she has served as the Governor appointed vice chair of the Cultural Properties Review Committee. For the last 12 years she has been involved with the cultural heritage of outer space and the preservation of sites related to space exploration. A recipient of a grant from the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium (NASA), she investigated both the archaeological assemblage and the international heritage status of the Apollo 11 Tranquility Base site on the Moon.
P.J. Capelotti is associate professor of anthropology at Penn State University Abington College. Author of more than a dozen books, his archaeological research has taken him several times to Svalbard and Franz Josef Land and twice to the North Pole. The U.S. Coast Guard decorated him with the Arctic Service Medal and twice with the Meritorious Service Medal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Archaeology and Heritage of the Human Movement into Space
Editors: Beth Laura O’Leary, P. J. Capelotti
Series Title: Space and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07866-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-07865-6Published: 11 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35285-5Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-07866-3Published: 30 August 2014
Series ISSN: 2199-3882
Series E-ISSN: 2199-3890
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 166
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Heritage, Archaeology, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space