Ultimately, the aim is to provide the critical evidentiary reflection and theoretical backing necessary to convert digital spatial data, especially envisioned within Geographical Information System (GIS) software, into **data** that is structured by interpretive social meaning and primed to be analysed through its quantitative counterparts. Since one of the important advantages of quantitative empirical tools and information consists of the ability to generate comparative knowledge, the abstract and universally applicable notion of boundaries-conveying the empirical reality that gives our material world its shape-are well matched. The issues with creating qualitative or interpretive **data** for social analysis within GIS are steeped in theoretical depth concerning the nature of archaeological evidence and defining analytical purpose.