Archaeology And Geographic Information Systems: A European Perspective

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Gary R Lock, G Stancic
CRC Press, 1995 M07 11 - 319 pages
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 back within the central concerns of archaeology and particularly European archaeology.; "Archaeology and GIS" includes material on such concerns as CRM applications, landscape archaeology, intra-site applications and explicitly theoretical concerns, thus representing the state of GIS applications in European archaeology. Contributions come from countries such as France, Italy, Hungary, UK, USA, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Spain, Slovenia and Finland.

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Contents

the North American experience in archae
1
a European agenda
27
van Leusen
28
will an objectspacetime GISAIS become a scienti
43
the Mediterranean evidence
55
Flood dynamics and settlement in the Tisza valley of northeast
67
Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Śri Utaca 49 1250
95
The spatial analysis of Bell Beaker sites in the Madrid region of Spain
101
the case study of
231
the Perseus GIS
239
The potential of GISbased studies of Iron Age cultural landscapes
249
GIS applications at the Hungarian National Museum Department
261
a cautionary tale from Shepton Mallet Somerset
269
Spatial relations in Roman Iron Age settlements in the Assendelver
287
Stichting RAAP Universiteit van Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 14 1018
288
Another way to deal with maps in archaeological GIS
301

an application of GIS to the Vinořskż
117
Beyond GIS
133
Perceiving time and space in an isostatically rising region
141
GIS on different spatial levels and the Neolithization process in
153
a GISbased method for investigating
171
Some criteria for modelling socioeconomic activities in the Bronze
187
a personal perspective
211
thoughts on the design
319
Field Archaeology Unit University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT
320
implications for archaeological theory
335
the past present
349
Postscript GIS environmental determinism and archaeology
367
Index
383
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