ABSTRACT
Maps have always been a fundamental tool in archaeological practice, and their prominence and variety have increased along with a growing range of digital technologies used to collect, visualise, query and analyse spatial data. However, unlike in other disciplines, the development of archaeological cartographical critique has been surprisingly slow; a missed opportunity given that archaeology, with its vast and multifaceted experience with space and maps, can significantly contribute to the field of critical mapping.
Re-mapping Archaeology thinks through cartographic challenges in archaeology and critiques the existing mapping traditions used in the social sciences and humanities, especially since the 1990s. It provides a unique archaeological perspective on cartographic theory and innovatively pulls together a wide range of mapping practices applicable to archaeology and other disciplines.
This volume will be suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as for established researchers in archaeology, geography, anthropology, history, landscape studies, ethnology and sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|77 pages
Where do maps come from and what do they do?
chapter 3|36 pages
Cults of the distribution map
part 2|45 pages
Practices of mapping
chapter 5|19 pages
The eye of the beholder
part 3|123 pages
Experimental mappings and cartographic provocations
chapter 7|34 pages
Experimental mapping in archaeology
chapter 8|23 pages
Here be worms
part 4|35 pages
Digital transformations
chapter 12|14 pages
Archaeology, digital cartography and the question of progress
part 5|11 pages
When all is said and done