Anthropology

• Expect the global automotive LiDAR market to reach a market value of $5 B by 2023 and $28 B by 2032.
• Archaeologists at UCL and Peking University hope that a reconciliation of genomics and archaeology will provide a new horizon for understanding the domestication of citrus fruit.
• Scheduled for launch in 2019 Webb is expected to more deeply probe stellar populations in the Milky Way bulge.
• Global Metal Detectors market is expected to witness growth during the forecast period due to high concerns for public safety and security.
• INRIA researcher Jean-Baptiste Mouret is currently designing an innovative robot that will be capable of squirming through a very small hole.
• VR is going to give the opportunity to children to go on field trips around the world and to try out their dream jobs on a daily basis.
• Ubiquitous connected devices will drive expanded participation and offer new ways to crowdsource data.
• Gravitational wave data will likely be used to learn more about how pairs of merging black holes form.
• The next generation of imaging techniques could be a game changer for archaeology.
• A smart phone app based on research on national cultures that enables users to analyze visible behavior differences in intercultural encounters and to predict to a certain degree which interactions evolve when people from different nationalities meet.
• Muon tomography and other sophisticated ground-scanning technologies could largely kill the need to dig at all.
• Teleimmersion will enable groups of engineers to work closely together across great distances on computerised designs.
• Scientists specializing in disciplines spanning medicine to archaeology will now have a powerful electron microscope on their doorstep.
• Quantum archaeology will proceed.
• Robotic analysis will be the standard in archaeology.

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Last updated: 16 July 2019