Abstract
Using a brief experiment in GIS, this article explores the relationship between showing and knowing in archaeology, and the relationship between seeing and understanding in medieval and modern ideas about landscape. The experiment plays with recreating the travel ‘mnemonic-scape’ along a section of medieval (thirteenth-fifteenth CE centuries) mountain highway, along a branch of what is now called “the Silk Road” located in the center of the modern Republic of Armenia. Ultimately, I argue for GIS mapping as one among multiple tools to be used to think playfully about historical experiences of space and movement, and about the critical link between vision, commemoration, and memory in the construction of social landscapes.
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