Bastions and barbed wire / edited by Tony Pollard and Iain Banks.

• TeilnehmendeR: Pollard, Tony.; Banks, Iain, 1963-
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles 2009
• Physical Description: ix, 250 p. :; ill., maps.
• Notes: "Also published as volume four of the Journal of conflict archaeology"--P. facing t.p.

Various papers on the archaeology of conflict, including battlefield archaeology. The main focus of the volume is confinement, as expressed by a wide variety of contexts. Most obviously these include Nazi concentration camps, which are in need of credible archaeological attention (the editorial points out the dangers of the misappropriation of archaeological and scientific techniques by Holocaust deniers). Other forms of confinement are examined in papers focussing on the archaeology of island defences and siege sites, with the sieges of Leith from 1650 and of Fort William from 1646 both recently being subject to archaeological investigation. Other contributions include a study of shell holes and field defences from the battle of the Bulge (1944).

Table of Contents

A detailed study of the effectiveness and capabilities of 18th century musketry on the battlefield / N.A. Roberts ... [et al.] -- An archaeological study of Talamanca battlefield / Xavier Rubio Campillo -- Remembering the Charge of the Light Brigade : its commemoration, war memorials and memory / Gavin Hughes & Jonathan Trigg -- Fortified homesteads : the architecture of fear in frontier South Australia and the Northern Territory, ca. 1847-1885 / Nicolas K. Grguric -- Landscapes of the Battle of the Bulge : WW2 field fortifications in the Ardennes forests of Belgium / David G. Passmore & Stephan Harrison -- Archaeological investigation of military sites on Inchkeith Island / Tony Pollard & Iain Banks -- War and place : landscapes of conflict and destruction in prehistory / James E. Snead -- The archaeology of the Seige of Leith, 1560 / Tony Pollard -- The archaeology of the Seige of Fort William, 1746 / Tony Pollard -- Between memory and materiality : an archaeological approach to studying the Nazi concentration camps / Adrian T. Myers -- Book review. The deadly politics of giving : exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown, by Seth Mallios.