Archaeologist uses computers and satellite images to search for early human settlements
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 14:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A Harvard archaeologist has dramatically simplified the process of finding early human settlements by using computers to scour satellite images for the tell-tale clues of human habitation, and in the process uncovered thousands of new sites that might reveal clues to the earliest complex human societies.
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