Archaeology of Conflict (General Sessions)

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeology of Conflict (General Sessions)," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Other Keywords
Ethnography • Historic Preservation • Battlefield • Monuments • American Civil War • Contemporary Archaeology • conflict archaeology • Lake Champlain • American Revolution • landscape of war

Geographic Keywords
New England • Eastern United States • Champlain Valley • United States, US territories, and US-aligned countries

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  • Arnold's Bay Project: Background Research for a Revolutionary Battlefield Site on Lake Champlain (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cherilyn A. Gilligan.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Conflict (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum was awarded an American Battlefield Protection Program grant through the National Park Service to survey the Revolutionary War battlefield site at Arnold’s Bay. This site is where American troops under General Benedict Arnold burned their remaining fleet to prevent its capture by the...

  • "Honor To The Soldier And Sailor Everywhere, Who Bravely Bears His Country’s Cause:" Battlefield Preservation and Conflict Archaeology In The United States Federal Government, 1775-2018 (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Terence A Christian.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Conflict (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Battlefield preservation initiatives consistently show public benefit. The United States Federal Government generally, and the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the National Park Service (NPS) specifically, have been at the vanguard of battlefield preservation initiatives since the field’s earliest conception. Under DOI and NPS...

  • Identity, Place and Memorialization: A Linguistic Study of Union Monuments at the Gettysburg Battlefield (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina H. McSherry.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Conflict (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The location of the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, now preserved at the Gettysburg National Military Park (GNMP), receives thousands of visitors every year. Visitors to the battlefield interact with over 1,000 monuments across the landscape that both commemorate the actions that took place and memorialize the participants...

  • World War II in Western Massachusetts: Contemporary Archaeology of a Plane Crash (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Raad.

    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...