The new interdisciplinary study of modern conflict archaeology has
developed rapidly over the last decade. Its anthropological
approach to modern conflicts, their material culture and their
legacies has freed such investigations from the straitjacket of
traditional 'battlefield archaeology'. It offers powerful new
methodologies and theoretical insights into the nature and
experience of industrialised war, whether between nation states or
as civil conflict, by individuals as well as groups and by women
and children, as well as men of fighting age. The complexities of
studying wars within living memory demand a new response - a
sensitised, cross-disciplinary approach which draws on many other
kinds of academic study but which does not privilege any particular
discipline. It is the most democratic kind of archaeology - one
which takes a bottom-up approach - in order to understand the web
of emotional, military, political, economic and cultural
experiences and legacies of conflict. These 18 papers offer a
coherent demonstration of what modern conflict archaeology is and
what it is capable of and offers an intellectual home for those not
interested in traditional 'war studies' or military history, but
who respond to the idea of a multidisciplinary approach to all
modern conflict.
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