Maps for Time Travelers with Dr. Mark McCoy - Ep 131

Archaeology is time travel. Full stop. When. you’re standing on a site holding an artifact it’s interesting to imagine what the landscape and environment was like when the person that created it was standing there. Our guest, Dr. Mark McCoy, is using maps and digital archaeology to envision archaeology as Time Travel.

About Mark: Mark D. McCoy is an expert in geospatial archaeology and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of over forty scientific journal articles on the archaeology of the Pacific Islands.

Links

• Maps for Time Travelers, University of California Press, 2020

App of the Day

• Webby: Touch GIS

Contact

• Chris Webster
• Twitter: @archeowebby
• Email: [email protected]
• Paul Zimmerman
• Twitter: @lugal
• Email: [email protected]

Affiliates

• Wildnote
• TeePublic
• Timeular

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