Abstract: The research paper reviews development of "spatial humanities" as both academic concept and operational approach. Methodological and technical developments of GIS have brought a new domain. In order to discuss history of "landscape" and "place", GIS may serve as spatial and quantitative approaches for describing and analyzing "non-quantitative" spatial-temporal phenomena, such as interactions between natural environment and human beings in prehistory and historical records. Several landscape history research cases based on GIS are selected and discussed in three categories, including "mapping and visualization of text and archive", "perception and cognition of landscape and space", and "society and power derived from landscape". These cases illustrate a few new approaches based on spatial humanity paradigm. The idea of "deep mapping" proposed recently in this domain has a potential beyond traditional GIS approach in landscape history study. It will introduce new perspectives to professionals to raise innovative research questions.