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This book contains sixteen original essays that highlight the role of historical archaeology in our understanding of the American Civil War.

Historic sites --- Military archaeology --- Archaeology of conflict --- Archaeology of war --- Battlefield archaeology --- Bunker archaeology --- Combat archaeology --- Conflict archaeology --- Archaeology --- United States --- History --- Antiquities.

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Funde --- Ausgrabung --- Schlachtfeld --- Military archaeology --- Mass burials --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Bronze age --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Civilization --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Mass graves --- Burial --- Archaeology of conflict --- Archaeology of war --- Battlefield archaeology --- Bunker archaeology --- Combat archaeology --- Conflict archaeology --- Archaeology --- Congresses --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Antiquities, Roman --- Congresses. --- Schlachtfeld. --- Funde. --- Ausgrabung. --- Bioarchaeology

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Essays that explore the growing field of conflict archaeology Within the last twenty years, the archaeology of conflict has emerged as a valuable subdiscipline within anthropology, contributing greatly to our knowledge and understanding of human conflict on a global scale. Although archaeologists have clearly demonstrated their utility in the study of large-scale battles and sites of conventional warfare, such as camps and forts, conflicts involving asymmetric, guerilla, or irregular warfare are largely missing from the historical record. Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars: Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare presents recent examples of how historical archaeology can contribute to a better understanding of asymmetric warfare. The volume introduces readers to this growing study and to its historic importance. Contributors illustrate how the wide range of traditional and new methods and techniques of historiography and archaeology can be applied to expose critical actions, sacrifices, and accomplishments of competing groups representing opposing philosophies and ways of life, which are otherwise lost in time. The case studies offered cover significant events in American and world history, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, Indian wars in the Southeast and Southwest, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Prohibition, and World War II. All such examples used here took place at a local or regional level, and several were singular events within a much larger and more complex historic movement. While retained in local memory or tradition, and despite their potential importance, they are poorly, and incompletely addressed in the historic record. Furthermore, these conflicts took place between groups of significantly different cultural and military traditions and capabilities, most taking on a “David vs. Goliath” character, further shaping the definition of asymmetric warfare.--publisher.

Military archaeology. --- Guerrilla warfare. --- Asymmetric warfare. --- Irregular warfare. --- Battles. --- Fighting --- Combat --- History --- Military art and science --- Military history --- Sieges --- War --- IW (Irregular warfare) --- Unconventional warfare --- Guerrilla warfare --- Insurgency --- Irregular warfare --- Archaeology of conflict --- Archaeology of war --- Battlefield archaeology --- Bunker archaeology --- Combat archaeology --- Conflict archaeology --- Archaeology

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In the past two decades, conflict archaeology has become firmly established as a promising field of research, as reflected in publications, symposia, conference sessions and fieldwork projects. It has its origins in the study of battlefields and other conflict-related phenomena in the modern Era, but numerous studies show that this theme, and at least some of its methods, techniques and theories, are also relevant for older historical and even prehistoric periods. This book presents a series of case-studies on conflict archaeology in ancient Europe, based on the results of both recent fieldwork and a reassessment of older excavations. The chronological framework spans from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity, and the geographical scope from Iberia to Scandinavia. Along key battlefields such as the Tollense Valley, Baecula, Alesia, Kalkriese and Harzhorn, the volume also incorporates many other sources of evidence that can be directly related to past conflict scenarios, including defensive works, military camps, battle-related ritual deposits, and symbolic representations of violence in iconography and grave goods. The aim is to explore the material evidence for the study of warfare, and to provide new theoretical and methodological insights into the archaeology of mass violence in ancient Europe and beyond.

Military archaeology --- Military art and science --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- War --- Archaeology of conflict --- Archaeology of war --- Battlefield archaeology --- Bunker archaeology --- Combat archaeology --- Conflict archaeology --- Archaeology --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- History --- E-books --- Warfare, Prehistoric --- Weapons, Ancient --- Weapons, Prehistoric

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This is the first book to explore prehistoric warfare and violence by integrating qualitative research methods with quantitative, scientific techniques of analysis such as paleopathology, morphometry, wear analysis, and experimental archaeology. It investigates early warfare and violence from the standpoint of four broad, interdisciplinary themes: skeletal markers of interpersonal violence; conflict in prehistoric rock-art; the material evidence of Bronze Age warfare and violence; and the birth of armies in the Iron Age and beyond. The scope of the book has a wide-ranging chronological and geographic coverage, from early Neolithic to Late Iron Age and from Western Europe to East Asia. It includes world-renowned sites and artefact collections such as the Tollense Valley Bronze Age battlefield (Germany), the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Tanum (Sweden), and the British Museum collection of bronze weaponry from the late Shang period (China). Additionally original case studies are presented in each section by a diverse international authorship. The study of warfare and violence in prehistoric and pre-literate societies has been at the forefront of archaeological debate since the publication of Keeley’s provocative monograph War Before Civilization (Oxford 1996). The problem has been approached from a number of standpoints including anthropological and behavioral studies of interpersonal violence, osteological examinations of sharp lesions and blunt-force traumas, wear analysis of ancient weaponry, and field experiments with replica weapons and armor. This research, however, is often confined within the boundaries of the various disciplines and specialist fields. In particular, a deep gulf still divides research approaches grounded in the humanities and social sciences from those based on the scientific analysis of human remains and material culture. The consequence is that, to this day, the subject is dominated by a number of undemonstrated assumptions regarding the nature of warfare, combat and violence in non-literate societies as well as the lack of functionality (or effectiveness) of early bronze weaponry and armor. Moreover, important methodological questions remain unanswered: can we securely distinguish between violence-related and accidental trauma on skeletal remains? To what extent can wear analysis shed light on long-forgotten fighting styles? Can we design meaningful combat tests based on historic martial arts? And can the study of rock-art unlock the social realities of prehistoric warfare? By breaking the mold of entrenched subject boundaries, this edited volume promotes interdisciplinary debate in the study of prehistoric warfare and violence by presenting a number of innovative approaches that integrate qualitative and quantitative methods of research and analysis.

Statistics. --- Cultural heritage. --- Archaeology. --- Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law. --- Cultural Heritage. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Military archaeology. --- Archaeology of conflict --- Archaeology of war --- Battlefield archaeology --- Bunker archaeology --- Combat archaeology --- Conflict archaeology --- Archaeology --- Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law. --- Statistics .