Exploring the topography of mind: GIS, social space and archaeology.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be of good use to anthropologists and archaeologists in their study of the landscape. The past concept of landscape was that it was an inert, passive space on which human activities were wrought. However, when the perspective is shifted so that the landscape becomes a framework with which humans interact, the activities also gain another significance. The landscape, as perceived by those who interact with it, plays a role in shaping the individuals and the community that they form. Artefacts are then understood within the context that they are found.

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