Creating an Earth Archive

Christopher Fisher¹, Stephen Leisz¹, Damian Evans², Diana H Wall³, Kathleen Galvin¹, Melinda Laituri⁴, Geoffrey Henebry⁵, James Zeidler⁶, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz⁷, Shrideep Pallickara⁸, Sangmi Pallickara⁸, Thomas Garrison⁹, Francisco Estrada-Belli¹⁰, Eduardo Neves¹¹, Kathryn Reese-Taylor¹², Rachel Opitz¹³, Thomas Lovejoy¹⁴, William Sarni¹⁵, Rodrigo Solinis¹⁶, Grace Ellis¹, Milena Carvalho^{17

18}, Cheryl White¹⁹, Louisa Daggars²⁰, Rafael Angel Gasson-Pacheco²¹, Aldo Bolaños²², Vern Scarborough²³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anthropology and Geography, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
² École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 75116 Paris, France.
³ School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
⁴ Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
⁵ Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.
⁶ Center for Environmental Management Military Lands, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
⁷ National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004.
⁸ Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
⁹ Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX 78705.
¹⁰ Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.
¹¹ Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-070, Brazil.
¹² Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
¹³ Department of Archaeology, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland.
¹⁴ Environmental Science and Policy Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030.
¹⁵ Water Foundry, Denver, CO 80202.
¹⁶ Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607.
¹⁷ Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131.
¹⁸ ICArEHB (Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behavior), Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.
¹⁹ Department of History, Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Tammenga, Paramaribo, Suriname.
²⁰ Department of Language and Cultural Studies, University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus, Georgetown, Guyana.
²¹ Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.
²² Departamento de Arqueologia, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima 15081, Peru.
²³ Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221.

PMID: 35263218
PMCID: PMC8931251
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115485119

Creating an Earth Archive

Christopher Fisher et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022.

. 2022 Mar 15;119(11):e2115485119.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2115485119. Epub 2022 Mar 9.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anthropology and Geography, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
² École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 75116 Paris, France.
³ School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
⁴ Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
⁵ Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.
⁶ Center for Environmental Management Military Lands, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
⁷ National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004.
⁸ Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
⁹ Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX 78705.
¹⁰ Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.
¹¹ Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-070, Brazil.
¹² Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
¹³ Department of Archaeology, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland.
¹⁴ Environmental Science and Policy Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030.
¹⁵ Water Foundry, Denver, CO 80202.
¹⁶ Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607.
¹⁷ Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131.
¹⁸ ICArEHB (Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behavior), Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.
¹⁹ Department of History, Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Tammenga, Paramaribo, Suriname.
²⁰ Department of Language and Cultural Studies, University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus, Georgetown, Guyana.
²¹ Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.
²² Departamento de Arqueologia, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima 15081, Peru.
²³ Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221.

PMID: 35263218
PMCID: PMC8931251
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115485119

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The authors declare no competing interest.

Figures

None — A rapidly changing Earth presents a grand challenge for humanity: We must preserve or record our cultural and ecological heritage, along with information about habitats critical for biodiversity—before they are lost completely. Image credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman.

**Fig. 1.**
This animation illustrates one use of Lidar, showing tree cover lifting from the archaeological site of Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico. The scan revealed house mounds and a pyramid at the site of a previously unrecorded pre-Contact city.

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