Anthropologists are urging space organizations to develop a record of all human-made artifacts that end up on Mars' surface.

Exploring Mars' human artifacts as historical treasures, not trash, offering insight into humanity's space migration.

Are human spacecraft, landers, rovers and other space-exploration debris little more than trash littering the surface of Mars ...

Human-made objects on Mars, including spacecraft, landers, and rovers, may hold significant archaeological value rather than ...

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New scholarship by University of Kansas anthropologist Justin Holcomb argues physical artifacts of human Martian exploration deserve cataloging, preservation and care in order to chronicle ...

Archaeologists call for tracking and preserving artifacts left on Mars to chronicle humans’ first attempts at interplanetary ...

and has now begun in off-world environments,” said University of Kansas anthropologist Justin Holcomb in a press release. Holcomb and his colleagues argue that humanity is currently undergoing ...

“All of this material, including the trackways and even discarded pieces of this equipment, represent the material record of our species’ first steps across our solar system,” said Justin Holcomb, of ...