“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Since the seminal work of Scott et al. at Little Bighorn, conflict archaeology has exploded with practitioners and offerings. Conflict Archaeology is a broad subdiscipline that encompasses archaeologies of memorialization, battlefields, aviation, defense; confinement and internment, holocaust archaeologies, class conflict and symbolic violence. The subdiscipline is an archaeology of the violence that runs as a dark current through the themes of historical archaeology itself.
However, perceptions exist that conflict archaeology is synonymous with battlefield archaeology, rather than subsuming it, and that conflict archaeology in general is disconnected from anthropological approaches to the past and lacking in theoretical and methodological grounding. This symposium aims to gain a little patch of ground against these views by showcasing the rise of theoretically informed, anthropologically driven research across an array of time periods and focuses. Much of this is the work of early career researchers; this symposium provides a platform for these diverse scholars.
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Alles Vergeht, Alles Verweht: Orphaned Heritage of Denmark’s Atlantic Wall. (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The most obvious enduring evidence of WWII in Denmark is the concrete bunkers dotting the landscape. On the west coast, the structures were part of the enormous chain of bunkers that created the Atlantic Wall. The bunkers remain today and have...
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The Biography of Spoliation As Insight Into the Role of Urban Fortification During the Levantine Crusader Era (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper demonstrates the complex role of spoliated elements and how they offer broader insight into the role of urban fortification in the Levant during the conflict of the Crusades. The motivations behind the spoliation of these elements...
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Conflict Behind the Lines: Considering Civilians in Conflict Archeology (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In challenging the battle-focused perception of Conflict Archeology, we need to consider the deep reach of warfare and social strife to areas away from the front lines. Archeologists have been trying to consider civilian connections to war in...
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"For I am tired of Cecesia": History and Archaeology of Confederate Guards and Union Prisoners of War at Camp Lawton (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Conflict sites, from battlefields to internment camps, exist frozen in time, with assemblages that characterize some of the most direct evidence of human agency. For the Civil War, the historiography of Union Prisoners of War focused on their...
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The Historic Aircraft Archaeology Survey Project [HAASP]: Developing and Implementing Aerospace Archaeology Standardized Investigative Processes and Historic Preservation Best Practices (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Aerospace archaeology is a rapidly developing sub-field of conflict archaeology. Largely driven by avocational researchers and interest groups since its early foundations, professional archaeology and the general public show growing interest...
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A Landscape Revealed: New Analysis of Surface Finds from Fort Delaware (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1993 to 1996, Delaware State Park employees conducted a shoreline survey of the quickly eroding beaches around Fort Delaware, a Civil War prisoner camp located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River. By the mid-1990s, erosion exposed...