Between January and March 2022, crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS)
performed the first archaeological fieldwork in space, the Sampling Quadrangle …

Archaeology is often defined as the study of the past through material culture. As we enter
the Anthropocene, however, the two parts of this definition increasingly diverge. In the …

Few items that comprise the material culture of the International Space Station ever return to
Earth. Most are left on the station or placed on cargo resupply ships that burn up on …

We develop and apply a deep learning-based computer vision pipeline to automatically
identify crew members in archival photographic imagery taken on-board the International …

This chapter reviews the methods, theories, and history of the field of space archaeology.
Space archaeology is the study of the material remains of human space-related activities on …

Abstract On October 4, 1957, Homo sapiens crossed a new threshold of technological
innovation after constructing an artifact capable of entering Low Earth Orbit and effectively …

We offer an archaeological analysis of the visual display of “space heroes” and Orthodox
icons in the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS). This study is …

We are currently undergoing the inaugural historical phases of our species' migration across
our Solar System. From an archaeological perspective, this process is recorded by cultural …

This paper presents an analysis of data derived from thousands of publicly available
photographs showing life on the International Space Station (ISS) between 2000 and 2020 …

The International Space Station Archaeological Project (ISSAP) is the first full-scale,
systematic archaeological investigation of the material culture from a site of human activity in …