This volume asks how the current Information Technology Revolution
influences archaeological interpretations of techno-social change.
Does cyber-archaeology provide a way to breathe new life into grand
narratives of technological revolution and culture change, or does
it further challenge these high-level theoretical explanations? Do
digital recording methods have the potential to create large,
regional-scale databases to ease investigation of high-level
theoretical issues, or have they simply exposed deeper issues of
archaeological practice that prevent this? In short, this volume
cuts beyond platitudes about the revolutionary potential of the
Information Technology Revolution and instead critically engages
both its possibilities and limitations. The contributions to this
volume are drawn from long-term regional studies employing a
cyber-archaeology framework, primarily in the southern Levant, a
region with rich archaeological data sets spanning the Paleolithic
to the present day. As such, contributors are uniquely placed to
comment on the interface between digital methods and grand
narratives of long-term techno-social change. Cyber-Archaeology and
Grand Narratives provides a much-needed challenge to current
approaches, and a first step toward integrating innovative digital
methods with archaeological theory.
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