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World War II in Western Massachusetts: Contemporary Archaeology of a Plane Crash (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Conflict (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mount Holyoke, a mountain in Western Massachusetts, is the site of ten World War II casualties. Without excavating, I interrogate how the physical remains of a 1944 plane crash exist in the present and actively shape the lived experiences of residents and visitors. The mountain is a mnemotopos, a place of memory and materialization...