Marshall Millett explains the documentation work of modern archaeology, then describes using lidar, photogrammetry, and CAVE systems to capture whole environments, including a bulldozed petroglyph site near Truckee. He predicts 3D scanning will replace photography as a sharing medium and discusses capturing elders, dying languages, and sacred sites for displaced tribes.
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