{"id":27790,"date":"2026-06-04T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=27790"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:29:56","slug":"justin-walsh-and-shawn-graham-are-launching-a-new-project-archaeology-impossible-that-looks-at-the-things-humans-leave-behind-on-mount-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2026\/justin-walsh-and-shawn-graham-are-launching-a-new-project-archaeology-impossible-that-looks-at-the-things-humans-leave-behind-on-mount-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Walsh and Shawn Graham are launching a new project \u2014 Archaeology Impossible \u2014 that looks at the things humans leave behind on Mount Everest."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Justin Walsh and Shawn Graham are launching a new project \u2014 Archaeology Impossible \u2014 that looks at the things humans leave behind on Mount Everest.\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p>Archaeologists study the International Space Station and Everest to figure out &#8216;how humans adapt in this impossible place where we have no business going&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Archaeologists are turning their attention and research skills to far-flung places on the Earth and beyond, discovering new information about how humans survive in extreme environments.<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Most archaeologists study the things that past people left behind to recreate a picture of a bygone culture. Researchers are now applying those same archaeological techniques to more modern \u2014 and extreme \u2014 environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/our-faculty\/justin-walsh.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Justin Walsh<\/u><\/a>, an archaeologist at Chapman University in California, is an innovator in the field of &#8220;space archaeology,&#8221; or the study of human activity in the space environment, defined as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/where-earth-atmosphere-ends\"><u>100 kilometers<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;[62 miles] above Earth and beyond. Since the founding of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/issarchaeology.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>ISS Archaeological Project<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in 2015, Walsh has been studying how astronauts experience the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/international-space-station\">International Space Station<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/shawn-graham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Shawn Graham<\/u><\/a>, a digital archaeologist at Carleton University in Canada, joined the project in 2023.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Walsh and Graham are launching a new project \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyimpossible.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Archaeology Impossible<\/u><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 that looks at the things humans leave behind on Mount Everest. Live Science spoke with the duo about their ISS work and about why humans are obsessed with conquering extreme environments, like the highest spot on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to article : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/archaeologists-study-the-international-space-station-and-everest-to-figure-out-how-humans-adapt-in-this-impossible-place-where-we-have-no-business-going\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/archaeologists-study-the-international-space-station-and-everest-to-figure-out-how-humans-adapt-in-this-impossible-place-where-we-have-no-business-going<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most archaeologists study the things that past people left behind to recreate a picture of a bygone culture. Researchers are now applying those same archaeological techniques to more modern \u2014 and extreme \u2014 environments. Justin Walsh, an archaeologist at Chapman University in California, is an innovator in the field of &#8220;space archaeology,&#8221; or the study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":27791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27792,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27790\/revisions\/27792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}