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Conflict Landscapes and Archaeology from Above
β Scribed by Birger Stichelbaut (editor), David Cowley (editor)
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 332
- Series
- Material Culture and Modern Conflict
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
The study of conflict archaeology has developed rapidly over the last decade, fuelled in equal measure by technological advances and creative analytical frameworks. Nowhere is this truer than in the inter-disciplinary fields of archaeological practice that combine traditional sources such as historical photographs and maps with 3D digital topographic data from Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) and large scale geophysical prospection. For twentieth-century conflict landscapes and their surviving archaeological remains, these developments have encouraged a shift from a site oriented approach towards landscape-scaled research. This volume brings together an wide range of perspectives, setting traditional approaches that draw on historical and contemporary aerial photographs alongside cutting-edge prospection techniques, cross-disciplinary analyses and innovative methods of presenting this material to audiences. Essays from a range of disciplines (archaeology, history, geography, heritage and museum studies) studying conflict landscapes across the globe throughout the twentieth century, all draw on aerial and landscape perspectives to past conflicts and their legacy and the complex issues for heritage management. Organized in four parts, the first three sections take a broadly chronological approach, exploring the use of aerial evidence to expand our understanding of the two World Wars and the Cold War. The final section explores ways that the aerial perspective can be utilized to represent historical landscapes to a wide audience. With case studies ranging from the Western Front to the Cold War, Ireland to Russia, this volume demonstrates how an aerial perspective can both support and challenge traditional archaeological and historical analysis, providing an innovative new means of engaging with the material culture of conflict and commemoration.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Series Introduction: Material Culture and Modern Conflict
Series Editorsβ Preface
Introduction: Conflict Landscapes and Archaeology from Above
1 The Archaeology of World War I in Comines-Warneton (Belgium) through Aerial Photographs and Proximal Soil Sensing
2 Bellewaarde Ridge (Belgium): Survey of a World War I Landscape
3 Contested Landscape: La Boisselle and the Glory Hole
4 World War I Remains in Scotland: Aerial Photography as Heritage
5 Protecting the Home Front: Understanding and Conservation of Twentieth-century Conflict Landscapes in England
6 Airborne Laser Scanning and the Archaeological Interpretation of Irelandβs World War I Landscape: Randalstown Training Camp, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
7 Aerial Perspectives on Archaeological Landscapes: The Anzac/ArΔ±burnu Battlefields, Gallipoli, Turkey
8 Landscapes of Death and Suffering: Archaeology of Conflict Landscapes of the Upper SoΔa Valley, Slovenia
9 The βGas-scapeβ on the Eastern Front, Poland (1914β2014): Exploring the Material and Digital Landscapes and Remembering Those βTwice-Killedβ
10 Remembering Uncertainty: The World War II Warscape of the Australian Northern Territory
11 World War II Conflict and Post-conflict Landscapes in Northwest France: An Evaluation of the Aerial Photographic Resource
12 Mapping Unexploded Ordnance in Italy: The Role of World War II Aerial Photographs
13 Erased Landscapes: Conflict, Memory and Post-World War II Landscape Transformation in Western Poland
14 A Cold War Conflict Landscape in the Borderlands of West Bohemia
15 βAnzac from the Airβ: Re-imagining the Australian War Memorialβs Gallipoli Aerial Collection
16 Italian World War I Aerial Photographs for Landscape Study and Public Engagement
17 The Aerial Perspective in a Museum Context: Above Flanders Fields 1914β1918
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