ABSTRACT
The increase in the number of publications describing GIS applications in European archaeology since 1990 has been steady. While the annual Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference is heavily biased toward a UK audience and is not representative of the whole continent, it is at least an annual constant that can be used to identify trends within this research domain. Having reached its current position within European archaeology it is impossible to consider a rejection of GIS by that community. Compared to North America, European archaeology is temporally and spatially rich and creates a much denser and more complex cultural landscape to record and manage. Within the current discussion, these differing areas of emphasis result in North American CRM having closer links with the spatial statistics tradition whereas European CRM is associated more with the landscape archaeology tradition.
