Geographic information systems GIS applications are viewed with
increasing interest by the archaeology community and this book,
with its diversity of topics and authorship, should be a useful
resource. Complementing the volume "Interpreting Space" Taylor &
Francis, 1990, which focused on North American archaeology, this
title further develops themes within a specifically - though not
exclusively - European context.; It is apparent that there are
fundamental differences between North American and European
archaeological uses of GIS. Primarily these differences lie in
the types of evidence for past landscapes that are available for
study in the two continents, and secondly in the different
approaches to archaeology and specifically the theory and
practice of landscape archaeology. This title centres on the
role of archaeological theory in cultural resource management
CRM and in GIS applications generally. It showcases the
important debate which takes the emphasis away from the
technology of GIS and places it ba