Fields of Conflict: Progress and Prospect in Battlefield Archaeology

ISBN-13: 9781841712499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 308 str.

Opis

25 papers, from a conference held at Glasgow in 2000, focus on the issues involved in the archaeology of battlefields, mostly in medieval Europe, in North America and in the warzones of the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to papers which look at the ways in which battlefield evidence should be investigated and interpreted, others question how these unique sites should be preserved and managed. Subjects include urban conflict at Olynthos in 348 BC, Roman conflict, Flodden Field, weaponry, English Civil War sieges, the Alamo, the American Civil War, the Apache Indian War, the Crimean War, the Zulu conflict, the First and Second World Wars and the archaeology of aviation warfare.

Proceedings of a conference held in the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, April 2000.The 25 papers published in these proceedings are the outcome of a conference held at Glasgow University in 2000. The objective of the event was to emphasise the unique contribution archaeology can make towards explaining actions (individual and corporate) and reactions to a range of experiences which, for better or worse, define us as humans: that is our propensity to use violence to resolve situations. The range of papers offered stretched from the C4th BC through to WWII, and geographically from Mexicoto Russia and South Africa.