Building past landscape perception with GIS: Understanding topographic prominence

This papers tries to illustrate the exploratory use of GIS within the conte xt of landscape research in archaeology. Current landscape approaches incor porate important theoretical advancements which have made archaeologists se nsitive to the subtleties of human space but these developments have not be en matched by advances in method. The paper focuses on this aspect and thus should be seen as pilot example towards the development of new landscape m ethodology.