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Broken Pots, Mending Lives - The Archaeology of Operation Nightingale (Hardcover)
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Broken Pots, Mending Lives - The Archaeology of Operation Nightingale (Hardcover)
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For those that survive, the traumas of military conflict can be
long lasting. It might seem astonishing that archaeology, with its
uncovering of the traces of the long-dead, of battlefields, of
skeletal remains, could provide solace, and yet there is something
magical about the subject. Operation Nightingale is a programme set
up in 2011 within the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom to
help facilitate the recovery of armed forces personnel recently
engaged in armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, using the
archaeology of the British Training Areas. In the following decade,
the project expanded to include veterans of older conflicts and of
other nations - from the United States, from Poland, from Australia
and elsewhere. In archaeology there is a job for everyone; from
surveying and drawing, to examining the finds, to digging itself.
Often this is in some of the most beautiful and restful of
landscapes and with talks around a campfire at the end of the day.
This book is the story of those veterans, of their incredible
discoveries, of their own journeys of recovery - and sometimes into
a lifetime of archaeology. From the crash sites of Spitfires and
trenches of the Western Front in the First World War, through to
burial grounds of Convicts, camp sites of Hessian mercenaries, and
Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. Lavishly illustrated, this work will show
the reader how the discovery of our shared past - of long-forgotten
houses, of glinting gold jewellery, of broken pots, can be
restorative and help people mend otherwise damaged lives.
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