Description: These nine papers, based on the 4th World Archaeological Congress held in South Africa in 1999, take a critical view of computer usage in archaeology and study its impact on the discipline and especially in terms of archaeological method and theory.
Brief description: Gary Lock is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. His research interests include computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology especially Geographical Information Systems, their application and theoretical aspects (current interests are modelling visibility and movement).
Review Quotes: This is a book that should be on all course reading lists. It is a valuable addition to the literature on the effects of the ICT revolution on archaeology.--Julien D Richards "Internet Archaeology, 2001"