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2.1 Introduction
The explosion of interest in GIS over the last ten years reflects
the importance of space, spatial concepts and spatial modelling, both in the present
and in the past. Although the technology of managing and analysing
spatial data is now a multi-million dollar industry, which, it
should be noted, pays scant regard to the specific requirements
of archaeologists, our discipline has been innovative and proactive
in developing its own applications of GIS. This section will serve
to trace the main developments in this process, illustrating the
evolving shape of GIS applications within archaeology. As will
be seen, these cover a wide range of approaches and serve to emphasise
the breadth and diversity of such applications within the discipline.
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