ABSTRACT
Spatial analysis in archaeology today encompasses a wide range of experiential, fieldwork-based, deterministic, and/or stochastic approaches that vary considerably in their intended purpose and theoretical underpinnings. The 1990s saw a string of methodologically focused edited volumes covering the development of archaeological Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Alongside this added capacity has also come a flood of digital information. Perhaps the most glamorous agents of this information revolution have been the automated or semi automated collection routines enabled by Global Positioning Systems (GPS), mobile phones, social networking sites, and space-borne remote sensing instruments. Kvamme offers a focus on two aspects of spatial and computational research that are common in archaeology but otherwise rare in this volume: the demands of cultural resource management (CRM) and the digital riches offered by remote-sensing imagery. Although there are archaeologists who use open source software for spatial modeling the vast majority of teaching and research has so far been conducted with a limited number of packages.
