中文摘要：

近十几年来，GIS考古取得了令人瞩目的发展。回顾十几年来的研究实践可以发现，GIS考古研究主要集中于考古数据获取与处理、考古数据管理、考古学分析与成果可视化四个方面。实践证明，现阶段的GIS考古研究需要将GIS技术更加紧密应用于考古学，需要在考古地层学、考古类型学、聚落考古等考古学基础研究上取得突破.

英文摘要：

GIS archaeology has obtained remarkable development since ten years ago. It has focused four aspects including archaeology data obtaining and processing, archaeology data managing, archaeology analysis and production visualization. It has been proved that the current study of GIS archaeology must apply technology of GIS to the archaeology more closely. It must be improved on the study method of basic theory of archaeology, such as stratigraphy for archaeology, typology for archaeology and settlement archaeology.