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An emerging science-based discipline that applies archaeological principles and methods to the systematic identification, clarification, critical examination, documentation, and debate of anomalous material traces of past non-human intelligent activity (NHI) found in remote sensing datasets (including orbital imagery, LiDAR, digital elevation models, spectroscopy, radar, and other non-contact survey data) through reproducible analytical workflows, differential diagnosis, and falsifiability, thereby distinguishing potential candidate anomalies not attributable to natural geological processes.