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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移动主题，静坐记忆：丝绸之路的中世纪旅行

通过在GIS中进行的简短实验，本文探讨了考古学中的展示与认识之间的关系，以及中世纪与现代有关景观的见解与理解之间的关系。实验的过程是沿着中世纪（第十三至十五世纪）山区公路的一部分，沿着现代亚美尼亚共和国中心的现在称为“丝绸之路”的分支重建旅行“记忆景观” 。最终，我认为GIS映射是多种工具中的一种，可以用来有趣地思考空间和运动的历史经验，以及在构想社会景观时视觉，纪念和记忆之间的关键联系。