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The Historical Archaeology of Military Sites : Method and Topic /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Geier, Clarence R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Following the paper trail: a historian's role at the Snake Hill excavations, Ontario, Canada
  • Geophysics: some recommendations and applications
  • Military medicine in the pre-modern era: using forensic techniques in the archaeological investigation of military remains
  • When the site is a scene: battlefield archaeology and forensic sites
  • Maritime archaeology of naval battlefields
  • Watch-fires of a hundred circling camps: theoretical and practical approaches to investigating Civil War campsites
  • Mapping early modern warfare: the role of geophysical survey and archaeology in interpreting the buried fortifications at Petersburg, Virginia
  • Topics in the historical archaeology of military sites
  • Civil War battlefield archaeology: examining and interpreting the debris of battle
  • Dissecting seventeenth and eighteenth century battlefields: two case studies from the Jacobite rebellions in Scotland
  • Patterning in earthen fortifications
  • Methods in the archaeology of colonial frontier forts: examples from Virginia and West Virginia
  • Great War archaeology in Belgium and France: a new challenge for battlefield archaeologists
  • History, archaeology, and the Battle of Balaclava (Crimea, 1854)
  • Cultural landscapes and collateral damage: Fredericksburg and Northern Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in the Civil War
  • Naval battlefields as cultural landscapes: the Siege of Yorktown
  • The Maple Leaf: the wreck site of a Civil War transport ship
  • Naval monuments and memorials: symbols in a contested landscape
  • We must act under our own chiefs according to our own customs: understanding indigenous military archaeology
  • The tragedy of the Nez Perce War of 1877: an archaeological expression
  • Glossary.