@article{holcomb_o'leary_darrin_mandel_kling_wegmann_2023, title={Planetary geoarchaeology as a new frontier in archaeological science: Evaluating site formation processes on Earth's Moon}, volume={6}, ISSN={["1520-6548"]}, DOI={10.1002/gea.21966}, abstractNote={AbstractOn October 4, 1957, Homo sapiens crossed a new threshold of technological innovation after constructing an artifact capable of entering Low Earth Orbit and effectively paving the way for a future of space exploration. This artifact was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet space program which triggered the “space race” of the mid‐20th century. Over the past 65 years, we have continued to explore and populate our solar system with rockets and spacecraft including satellites, probes, landers, and rovers. This expansion into our solar system has left traces of our presence on several planets including the Earth, Mars, Mercury, and Venus along with Earth's Moon, Titan, and several galaxy travelers in the form of asteroids and comets. Today, we have entered the realm of a new privatized and global space race, effectively a “new space race” or “new Space Age.” As we expand our material footprint into new extraterrestrial environments, there is a growing need to understand the types of unique site formation processes capable of altering, destroying, or preserving this rapidly increasing archaeological record known as space heritage. Such understandings are germane to the subdiscipline of geoarchaeology, that part of archaeology dedicated to studying the interaction between humans, cultural heritage, and environmental systems from a geoscience perspective. Closely aligned and partially overlapping with the subdisciplines of space archaeology, archaeological science, and planetary geology, we introduce a new subfield we call planetary geoarchaeology to open discussion about how geoarchaeologists can play a role in addressing current and future issues surrounding the preservation and management of space heritage. To demonstrate the potential of the subdiscipline, we focus on the current archaeological record of the Moon, describe lunar site formation processes, and discuss the implications for the current and future preservation of space heritage in the lunar setting. Planetary geoarchaeology can be applied to practically every type of extraterrestrial environment, provided humans have left behind a measurable record. We hope this paper will spur more research studying human–environment interaction in space.}, journal={GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL}, author={Holcomb, Justin A. A. and O'Leary, Beth and Darrin, Ann G. G. and Mandel, Rolfe D. D. and Kling, Corbin and Wegmann, Karl W. W.}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @article{kling_byrne_atkins_wegmann_2021, title={Tectonic Deformation and Volatile Loss in the Formation of Noctis Labyrinthus, Mars}, volume={126}, ISSN={["2169-9100"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006555}, DOI={10.1029/2020JE006555}, abstractNote={AbstractNoctis Labyrinthus is a little‐studied and structurally complex area situated between the Tharsis Rise and Valles Marineris on Mars. Noctis Labyrinthus is dissected by normal faults that form horst and graben, pit craters situated inside the graben, and large troughs that cross‐cut both graben and pit craters. Mass wasting, periglacial, and some erosive fluvial features are observed at the bases of the troughs, suggesting that the troughs hosted liquid and perhaps even ice at some point in the past. We mapped and analyzed these structural and morphological features in Noctis Labyrinthus to establish the region's formational history. Fault throw profiles, combined with morphometric data from pit craters, were used to assess how the pit craters relate to the much larger troughs in the region and whether those troughs were formed by extensional tectonic deformation alone. This comparative analysis suggests that some pit craters grew deeper than the amount of throw accommodated by their bounding faults. We hypothesize that layers with subsurface volatiles (such as ground ice) were intersected and exposed by the larger Noctis Labyrinthus pit craters, enabling sublimation that further promoted mass wasting and the growth and coalescence of pits and graben into the large troughs. Under this scenario, subsurface volatiles played an important role in forming this structurally complex region, and may still be present there.}, number={11}, journal={JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS}, publisher={American Geophysical Union (AGU)}, author={Kling, Corbin L. and Byrne, Paul K. and Atkins, Rachel M. and Wegmann, Karl W.}, year={2021}, month={Nov} }
 @article{klimczak_kling_byrne_2018, title={Topographic Expressions of Large Thrust Faults on Mars}, volume={123}, ISSN={["2169-9100"]}, DOI={10.1029/2017JE005448}, abstractNote={AbstractOn planets with little erosion, thrust faults produce broad, asymmetric, positive‐relief, linear to arcuate ridges—often referred to as lobate scarps—that remain largely unaltered, such that their topographic expressions are a measure of the structural uplift caused by the displacement and associated country rock deformation of the faults. Here we map and systematically assess the structural relief of 24 thrust faults across Mars to infer their growth behavior. Our mapping indicates that the majority of individual thrust faults have simple, linear map traces with lengths of up to ~450 km but that some thrust faults form systems of up to 1,400 km in length. For the most topographically pronounced landforms, the structural relief developed above the fault is as great as ~3,400 m. We then relate topographic measurements to the displacement on the underlying fault planes to study the displacement variations along the fault length. We find a variety of displacement distribution shapes of the fault systems, which we attribute to differences in fault growth that include unrestricted and restricted growth, linkage, and/or fault interaction. Finally, we relate the maximum displacements (Dmax) determined for each of the faults to their respective fault length (L) to establish a maximum displacement‐to‐length relationship. The observed scaling characteristics and order‐of‐magnitude scatter of our Dmax/L data are not uncommon for fault populations on Earth and tie in well with the map patterns, tectonic geomorphology, and systematic along‐strike displacement distributions to have grown in a basement‐block faulting style found in intraplate tectonic settings on Earth.}, number={8}, journal={JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS}, author={Klimczak, Christian and Kling, Corbin L. and Byrne, Paul K.}, year={2018}, month={Aug}, pages={1973–1995} }
 @article{speakman_hadden_colvin_cramb_jones_jones_kling_lulewicz_napora_reinberger_et al._2018, title={CHOOSING A PATH TO THE ANCIENT WORLD IN A MODERN MARKET: THE REALITY OF FACULTY JOBS IN ARCHAEOLOGY}, volume={83}, ISSN={["2325-5064"]}, DOI={10.1017/aaq.2017.36}, abstractNote={Over the past 30 years, the number of US doctoral anthropology graduates has increased by about 70%, but there has not been a corresponding increase in the availability of new faculty positions. Consequently, doctoral degree-holding archaeologists face more competition than ever before when applying for faculty positions. Here we examine where US and Canadian anthropological archaeology faculty originate and where they ultimately end up teaching. Using data derived from the 2014–2015 AnthroGuide, we rank doctoral programs whose graduates in archaeology have been most successful in the academic job market; identify long-term and ongoing trends in doctoral programs; and discuss gender division in academic archaeology in the US and Canada. We conclude that success in obtaining a faculty position upon graduation is predicated in large part on where one attends graduate school.}, number={1}, journal={AMERICAN ANTIQUITY}, author={Speakman, Robert J. and Hadden, Carla S. and Colvin, Matthew H. and Cramb, Justin and Jones, K. C. and Jones, Travis W. and Kling, Corbin L. and Lulewicz, Isabelle and Napora, Katharine G. and Reinberger, Katherine L. and et al.}, year={2018}, month={Jan}, pages={1–12} }