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, fieldwork, Geographical Information Systems and prehistoric monumentality are reflected in books such as Spatial Technologies and Archaeology (2002); Avebury (2004); Landscape of the Megaliths (2008) and, most recently, a four-volume critical reader in Landscape Archaeology (2016).

Piraye Hacgüzeller 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 (Using Computers in Archaeology. Towards Virtual Pasts, 2003). He is particularly interested in the use of Geographical Information Systems in archaeology and their relationship to landscape theory and fieldwork practice (Archaeology and Geographical Information Systems, 1995; Beyond the Map. Archaeology and Spatial Technologies, 2000).

Acknowledgements; Contributors; Chapter1 On maps and mapping; PART 1 Where do maps come from and what do they do?; Chapter2 The map as assemblage: landscape archaeology and mapwork; Chapter3 Cults of the distribution map: geography, utopia and the making of modern archaeology; Chapter4 Feminist mapping for archaeologists: at the intersection of practices; PART 2 Practices of mapping; Chapter5 The eye of the beholder: experience, encounter and objectivity in archaeo-topographical survey; Chapter6 The craft of earthwork survey; PART 3 Experimental mappings and cartographic provocations; Chapter7 Experimental mapping in archaeology: process, practice and archaeologies of the moment; Chapter8 Here be worms: map art for the archaeologist (or how I learned to stop worrying and love artistic abstraction in maps); Chapter9 Describing Hermion/Ermioni. Between Pausanias and digital maps, a topology; Chapter10 Re-thinking the conversation: a geomythological deep map; 11 Mapping sound: creating a static soundscape; PART 4 Digital transformations; Chapter12 Archaeology, digital cartography and the question of progress: the case of Çatalhöyük (Turkey); Chapter13 Cartography and quantum theory: in defence of distribution mapping; PART 5 When all is said and done; Chapter14 Making maps: a commentary; Index