Material Aspects of Global Conflict

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rick Elliott.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in accounting for global conflicts in the historical record. The problem, as described here, is the “archives-versus-archaeology” gap: the space that exists between documentary evidence related to global conflicts held in archives and archaeological evidence of those conflicts on the ground. The “global”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emadeldeen Hamdan.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A major topic of archaeological research includes the modeling of human movement across diverse landscapes, often in terms of how geography can facilitate or impede mobility. On an operational level, modeling human movement allows archaeologists to determine likely travel corridors that may aid in the identification of new sites and features, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyrus Banikazemi.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food shortages and rationing during World War II brought about substantial changes in the ways in which peoples accessed and innovated cuisine across the Philippines. Focusing on these innovations helps underscore the dynamic nature of native dietary customs as they become subject to external political influences and social stress. Employing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caleb Kestle.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Here we take the position that the systematic destruction of archaeological sites, often referred to as looting, should be understood not only as a site formation process that obscures the object of archaeological analysis, but also as an archeological behavior that can elucidate the social conditions of past peoples. Here we propose a modest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Kracinski.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While archaeological questions pertaining to the study of identity have been asked about groups living in historic times to the neolithic, archaeological studies have looked at the material manifestations of identity in locations of confinement from contemporary sites. In doing so, the question becomes not “how do these individuals identify” but...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Goodman.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most studies of 20th-century conflict focus on the unprecedented destruction of people and places that was wrought during the wars. However, from an archaeological viewpoint, these conflicts were a time of proliferation of sites and items; some of these items include equipment and other supplies for the military and are herein termed “war matériel.”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Reid.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In contrast to the perception of cartographic progress, wherein the scientific mapping of the world becomes more accurate over time, historical map series inherently reflect political biases of their makers where specific information is prioritized, omitted, or overlooked. This is especially the case in regions with colonial histories where mapmaking...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Meierhoff.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As Europe was being destroyed for the second time in 40 years, American cities and their hinterlands during World War II lay unscathed. The war would eventually come to Chicago’s northwest suburbs in the spring of 1945 when German prisoners of war (POWs) occupied Camp Pine, a small, repurposed labor camp in the woods in Des Plaines, Illinois. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Feltz.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the applications of modern technology to further the analyses and understanding of the consequences of global conflict. Partnered with the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA), the Center for the Recovery and Identification of the Missing (CRIM) uses such technology to facilitate recovery missions in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Bishop.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human-animal interactions in conflict have resulted in the injuries and deaths of millions of livestock, pets, wild animals, and military animals, leading to human subsistence issues, long-term environmental impacts, and animal welfare concerns. This work focuses on human-animal interactions during the Battle of Kellogg’s Grove during the Black Hawk...