Historical archaeology of military sites
Subtitle: method and topic
By: edited by Clarence R. Geier ... [et al.].
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781603442077
Subjects: Archaeology and history; Case studies; Military archaeology; Archaeology; Methodology; Excavations (Archaeology); Military history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Following the paper trail: a historian's role at the Snake Hill excavations, Ontario, Canada; title: Geophysics: some recommendations and applications; title: Military medicine in the pre-modern era: using forensic techniques in the archaeological investigation of military remains; title: When the site is a scene: battlefield archaeology and forensic sites; title: Maritime archaeology of naval battlefields; title: Watch-fires of a hundred circling camps: theoretical and practical approaches to investigating Civil War campsites; title: Mapping early modern warfare: the role of geophysical survey and archaeology in interpreting the buried fortifications at Petersburg, Virginia; title: Topics in the historical archaeology of military sites; title: Civil War battlefield archaeology: examining and interpreting the debris of battle; title: Dissecting seventeenth and eighteenth century battlefields: two case studies from the Jacobite rebellions in Scotland; title: Patterning in earthen fortifications; title: Methods in the archaeology of colonial frontier forts: examples from Virginia and West Virginia; title: Great War archaeology in Belgium and France: a new challenge for battlefield archaeologists; title: History, archaeology, and the Battle of Balaclava (Crimea, 1854); title: Cultural landscapes and collateral damage: Fredericksburg and Northern Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in the Civil War; title: Naval battlefields as cultural landscapes: the Siege of Yorktown; title: The Maple Leaf: the wreck site of a Civil War transport ship; title: Naval monuments and memorials: symbols in a contested landscape; title: We must act under our own chiefs according to our own customs: understanding indigenous military archaeology; title: The tragedy of the Nez Perce War of 1877: an archaeological expression; title: Glossary.