The Anthropocene in the Solar System

Authors

  • Alice Claire Gorman Flinders University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v1i1.87

Keywords:

anthropocene, orbital debris, space archaeology, space junk, satellites, International Geophysical Year

Author Biography

  • Alice Claire Gorman, Flinders University

    Dr Alice Gorman is an internationally recognised leader in the emerging field of space archaeology. She is a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Flinders University, a faculty member of the International Space University's Southern Hemisphere Space Program, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Australian National University's Mt Stromlo Observatory. Her research on space exploration has been featured in National Geographic, the Monocle, and Archaeology magazine. She tweets as @drspacejunk.

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Published

2014-09-23

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Section

Archaeology of the Anthropocene

How to Cite

Gorman, A. C. (2014). The Anthropocene in the Solar System. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 1(1), 87-91. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v1i1.87