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. Contents: Introduction (Gark
Lock & Kayt Brown); Computers and archaeological cultural change (J
Huggett); Archaeological computing and disciplinary theory (J Gidlow);
Mathematics and computers (H Forsyth); Virtual reality (G Goodrick & M
Gillings); Archaeological archives for the 21st century (F Grew);
Intellectual excavation (A Beck); English sites and monuments records (B
Robinson); Can computers help aerial survey? (R Palmer); Is there such a
thing as `Computer Archaeology'?