Re-Mapping Archaeology: Critical Perspectives, Alternative Mappings

363 Pages·2019·23.16 MB·English

by  Mark Gillings

Re-Mapping Archaeology
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 signifi cantly contribute to the fi eld 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.
Mark Gillings is a Reader in Archaeology at the University of Leicester
specialising in the theory and practice of Landscape Archaeology. His fascination
with archaeological theory, fi eldwork, Geographical Information Systems and
prehistoric monumentality are refl ected in books such as S patial Technologies and
Archaeology (2002); Avebury (2004); Landscape of the Megaliths (2008) and,
most recently, a four-volume critical reader in L andscape Archaeology (2016).
Piraye Hacıgüzeller is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ghent Centre for
Digital Humanities and the Archaeology Department of Ghent University.
She has carried out postdoctoral research on the archaeological applications
of GIS and critical mapping at KU Leuven and the University of Oxford, and
is currently tasked with coordinating geospatial information activities at the
Ghent Center for Digital Humanities.
Gary Lock is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oxford,
with a long-standing interest in the use of computers in archaeology (U sing
Computers in Archaeology. Towards Virtual Pasts , 2003). He has been
particularly interested in the use of Geographical Information Systems in
archaeology and their relationship to landscape theory and fi eldwork practice
( Archaeology and Geographical Information Systems , 1995; Beyond the
Map. Archaeology and Spatial Technologies , 2000).
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Re-Mapping Archaeology
Critical Perspectives,
Alternative Mappings
Edited by Mark Gillings,
Piraye Hacıgüzeller and
Gary Lock
First published 2019
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Lock, G. R. (Gary R.), editor.
Title: Re-mapping archaeology : critical perspectives, alternative mappings /
edited by Mark Gillings, Piraye Hacigèuzeller and Gary Lock.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Includes bibliographical
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Contributors ix
1 On maps and mapping 1
MARK GILLINGS, PIRAYE HACIGÜZELLER AND GARY LOCK
PART 1
Where do maps come from and what do they do? 17
2 The map as assemblage: landscape archaeology and mapwork 19
OSCAR ALDRED AND GAVIN LUCAS
3 Cults of the distribution map: geography, utopia and the
making of modern archaeology 37
HELEN WICKSTEAD
4 Feminist mapping for archaeologists: at the intersection
of practices 73
SILVIA TOMÁŠKOVÁ
PART 2
Practices of mapping 95
5 The eye of the beholder: experience, encounter and
objectivity in archaeo-topographical survey 97
MICHAEL FRADLEY
6 The craft of earthwork survey 117
TESSA POLLER
vi Contents
PART 3
Experimental mappings and cartographic provocations 141
7 Experimental mapping in archaeology: process, practice
and archaeologies of the moment 143
DANIEL LEE
8 Here be worms: map art for the archaeologist (or how
I learned to stop worrying and love artistic abstraction
in maps) 177
ANDREW VALDEZ-TULLETT
9 Describing Hermion/Ermioni. Between Pausanias Colour
and digital maps, a topology plate
CALEB LIGHTFOOT AND CHRISTOPHER WITMORE
10 Re-thinking the conversation: a geomythological deep map 201
ERIN KAVANAGH
11 Mapping sound: creating a static soundscape 231
DIANNE SCULLIN
PART 4
Digital transformations 265
12 Archaeology, digital cartography and the question of
progress: the case of Çatalhöyük (Turkey) 267
PIRAYE HACIGÜZELLER
13 Cartography and quantum theory: in defence of
distribution mapping 281
CHRISTOPHER GREEN
PART 5
When all is said and done 301
14 Making maps: a commentary 303
MONICA L. SMITH
Index 313
Acknowledgements
The chapters assembled in this book partially derive from papers presented
at a day conference in May 2015 at the University of Leicester entitled
‘Archaeology and the Map: Critique and Practice’, and a dedicated session
at the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference at the University
of Bradford in December of the same year. We would like to thank the Uni-
versity of Leicester and TAG2015 organisers for their kind support. Piraye
Hacıgüzeller would like to thank Gerda Henkel Foundation (M4Human
Programme) for their support for her postdoctoral project, “Archaeology
and the map: from critique to practice” at the University of Oxford, which
allowed her to carry out large part of the work that made this book possible.
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Contributors
Oscar Aldred, Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Department of Archaeology
& Anthropology (University of Cambridge)
Michael Fradley, School of Archaeology (University of Oxford)
Mark Gillings, School of Archaeology & Ancient History (University of
Leicester)
Christopher Green, School of Archaeology (University of Oxford)
Piraye Hacıgüzeller, Department of Archaeology & Centre for Digital
Humanities (Ghent University)
Erin Kavanagh, Faculty of Humanties and Performing Arts (University of
Wales, Trinity Saint David)
Daniel Lee, University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute
Caleb Lightfoot, College of Architecture (Texas Tech University)
Gary Lock, Institute of Archaeology (University of Oxford)
Gavin Lucas, Department of Archaeology (University of Iceland)
Tessa Poller, School of Humanities (University of Glasgow)
Dianne Scullin, Independent Researcher
Monica L. Smith, Department of Anthropology (University of California,
Los Angeles)
Silvia Tomášková, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Department
of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill
Andrew Valdez-Tullett, Research Group, Historic England.
Helen Wickstead, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Kingston Uni-
versity, London
Christopher Witmore, Department of Classical & Modern Languages &
Literatures, Texas Tech University