Material Aspects of Global Conflict

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Communities caught up in global conflict can be transformed not just by the conflict itself, but also by the massive influx of material goods that change many aspects of culture, from the local distribution of power to foodways. Approaches to global conflict that focus on such communities require long-term, multiscalar, and multidisciplinary research. The papers in this session examine a variety of wars, ranging from those of colonial expansion in North America to the Vietnam, using archaeological, bioarchaeological, engineering, and historical approaches to develop an understanding of how communities are changed by global conflict.