Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication
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Download or read book Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication contains 15 essays that explore the relationships between the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and the scholarly disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Many of the essays are updated versions of papers originally presented in symposia at the 2004, 2005, and 2006 annual conventions of the American Anthropological Association. Contributors include eminent archaeologists and anthropologists as well as astrobiologists, historians, psychologists, a philosopher and cognitive ethologist, a literary theorist, a computer scientist, and others whose work synthesizes research from both the humanities and the natural sciences. Editor Douglas A. Vakoch, who is Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute and a Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, has organized the essays into four sections: ?Historical Perspectives on SETI,? ?Archaeological Analogues,? ?Anthropology, Culture, and Communication,? and ?The Evolution and Embodiment of Extraterrestrials.? Vakoch has also provided an introduction, titled ?Reconstructing Distant Civilizations and Encountering Alien Cultures,? and an epilogue. This collection offers a comprehensive and fascinating approach to the complex subject of communication between modern humans and a remote ?other.? It describes ways in which our understanding of ancient civilizations and terrestrial non-humans may inform any future exchange with extraterrestrial intelligences?beings far distant from us not just in space and time but perhaps even in the most fundamental aspects of physical experience and intellectual perception. It also demonstrates how examining Earthly cultures of the past can help us to imagine and prepare for the interstellar encounters that may lie ahead.


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