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DOCUMENT Citation Only Larra Diboyan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Azerbaijan government committed Cultural Genocide against Armenian sites in disputed territories before their most recent 2020 dispute. To fit the nationalistic narrative, Azerbaijan has been destroying or usurping important sites and churches and reshaping the landscape to erase any memory of Armenians. With the use of Armenian and Azerbaijani data,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher N. Matthews.

This is an abstract from the "Urban Erasures and Contested Memorial Assemblages" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Essex County in northern New Jersey experienced dramatic urban development and change in the second half the 20th century. Essex is home to Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, as well as 21 other municipalities that range from poor and densely packed cities to affluent and amenity-rich suburbs. This paper examines how urban spaces are...