Currently, technological advances are leading to a geospatial
revolution and a second period of rapid change in archaeology,
one focused on outlining large-scale natural and human-built
landscapes. The effects of this technology are being felt most
clearly in forest-covered areas of Mesoamerica where ancient
landscapes traditionally have been most difficult to define. Just
as radiocarbon dating transformed the temporal domain, the
current geospatial innovations are bringing a semblance of control
to the spatial domain and are helping significantly with the
interpretation of past sociopolitical complexity.