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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'?