The Brandywine Battlefield – Anthropological Approaches in Battlefield Analysis, Prediction, and Investigation to interpret differing realities of Landscape and Strategy.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Battlefield archaeologists as “specialists”, with few exceptions, have yet to achieve interdisciplinary recognition. Battlefield investigations have provided confirmation and contradictions to the accepted historical records and the problem is when the results of these investigations fail to be recognized and adopted into the narratives of other disciplines. This contribution will provide significant physical evidence that battlefield investigations are not ancillary to the historical record but provide evidence for the need for additional research across disciplines. Anthropological approaches are holistic in nature and adopt a number of schemas in building predictability modeling. When successful archaeological results open the door for further multidisciplinary studies and opportunities to produce more factually accurate historical data.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology