ABSTRACT
The history of quantification and database construction in archaeology, and its history of digital communication, therefore gives it a perspective on the spatial humanities which is driven by both content and by communication. This chapter provides a narrower disciplinary focus by examining spatial technology, spatial thinking and the specific case of archaeology. Archaeology is the area of the humanities with the longest history of engagement with geographic information systems, a history due largely to its emphasis on quantitative methods, and its data-driven approach. Neogeography is a term which was coined in the 2000s to describe the proliferation of spatial content on the World Wide Web, driven by the launch of corporate products such as Google Earth in that period. Neogeography’s impact on the spatial humanities is likely to be in the form of specific, critically grounded and co-produced activities, such as that described by D. Cooper and G. Priestnall, and not those which harness ‘the power of the crowd’.
