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By aardvarchaeology on December 9, 2013.
I read something annoying; always a good impetus for a blog entry. The offender this time is Nick Saunders of the University of Bristol, writing in
Current World Archaeology #62 (Dec/Jan, available on Academia.edu). And the theme is what he calls ”the birth of Modern Conflict Archaeology”. This birth, he explains, began with a 1998 grant of his to study World War 1 trench art, stuff that soldiers made during and after the war. He has since gone on to do fieldwork on the ”Italian Front” along the border between Italy and Slovenia.
Battlefield archaeology is a long-established field of research where you use archaeological methods to study what happened during and immediately after a battle. I don t pay much attention to it myself, though I have spent a few days helping as a detectorist on a 1719 battlefield near my home. But let s see what Saunders has to say about battlefield archaeology in relation to what he do