Maps for Time Travelers: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Bring Us Closer to the Past. Mark D. McCoy. 2020. University of California Press, Oakland. xviii + 257 pp. $26.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-520-30316-4. $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-520-38972-4. $26.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-520-97265-0

The stated goal of the book is to provide a “crash course, with minimal jargon,” on how archaeologists utilize geospatial technologies like “GPS, satellite imagery, digital maps, and other instruments … like drones at 3-D laser scanners … to create a better, more complete picture of the ancient world” (p. ix). McCoy talks a bit about how we may begin to incorporate Indigenous ontologies, citing the groundbreaking work of Métis scholar Kisha Supernant, although I think a more concerted section on collaborative geospatial research, community-based and participatory GIS, and counter-mapping would have been well positioned here (he does reference counter-mapping briefly vis-à-vis the Dakota Access Pipeline, and he references Sonya Atalay's 2012 critical volume—Community-Based Archaeology—in the Notes; for another recent example, see Advances in Archaeological Practice 9(3), Special Issue, “NDN Communities and Remote Sensing Technologies,” edited by Kristen Barnett and Matthew Sanger, 2021). To arrive at more inclusive understandings of the past, we also need to incorporate nonnormative, feminist, and queer approaches to archaeological inquiry in order to see where they might intersect with critical emergent approaches to geospatial analysis.