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Conflict Archaeology, Material Culture, and the Role of Validation Studies in Interpreting the Past (2018)
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Conflict archaeology has grown as a sub-discipline in the last 30 years. It now has a rich theoretical basis grounded in Military Terrain analysis and the Anthropological theories of war and warfare. Most of our material culture finds are still interpreted using typologies created in the field of military material culture collecting or from those established by relic collectors. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but given that we are dealing with relatively recent material culture our...