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Capsules: A Cultural History
William E. Jarvis
This work is a cultural history of five
thousand years of time capsules and other related
time-information transfer experiences. It examines both the
formal and the popular culture aspects of the time capsule, from
its roots in ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian building
foundation deposits to the present utilization of spacecraft
probes and other extreme locations. The deposits of 3000 BCE
deliberately had no definite date and time to be opened; in 1876
CE came the idea of target-dated deposits. Also discussed are
how "real" time capsules work, notional and archaeological time
capsules, the height of the time capsule’s popularity from 1935
to 1982, the preservation of writings in time capsules, keeping
time in a perpetual futurescape, and turn of the century hype
surrounding millennium time capsules.
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Were Here: A Short History of Time Capsules
Patricia Seibert
From School Library Journal
Grades 4-6--Seibert defines a "time capsule" as an object
created, filled with contemporary items, and intended to be
opened at a specified future date. Yet this text includes quite
a range of time-capsulelike containers, such as Egyptian
pyramids and tombs and ancient Chinese burial chambers, which
were not created with the intention of ever being opened by
living people...
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