Flying High In An Unfriendly Sky: The Aviation Cultural Landscape of Malta During The Second World War
Author(s): Anthony Burgess
Year: 2020
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
While concepts of cultural landscapes are firmly entrenched within terrestrial and maritime archaeology, their utilisation within aviation archaeology has been far less consistent. What might such a landscape consist of, and what new insights could it invoke, if any? Can we simply transplant existing theoretical constructs within landscapes into aviation (such as maritime) or does aviation require a more bespoke approach, and if so, why?
Using the Second Siege of Malta during World War Two as a case study, what the aspects of an aviation cultural landscape during wartime could consist of will be explicated, along with a methodology for gathering, exploiting and presenting the data.
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Flying High In An Unfriendly Sky: The Aviation Cultural Landscape of Malta During The Second World War. Anthony Burgess. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457535)
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Keywords
General
Aviation
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Landscape
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Second World War
Geographic Keywords
Malta
Temporal Keywords
Second World War
Spatial Coverage
min long: 14.337; min lat: 35.801 ; max long: 14.57; max lat: 35.992 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 672