Interpreting Space

This volume is a basic source book on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for archaeologists, anthropologists and social scientists in related disciplines. It concentrates on computerised spatial information processing for researchers and workers in archaeology as they now encounter this technology for the first time. The book defines and critically examines the use and applications of GIS providing archaeologists with the information to be able to evaluate, purchase and apply GIS to their work. The book will be of interest to all those active in modelling the landscape with a historical perspective, and studying the changing environment, its conservation and man's effect on it through time.