From the Exhumation of Bodies to Historical Knowledge: An Analysis of Francoist Repression in Southwest Spain

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Journal of Contemporary Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-05-12 DOI:10.1558/JCA.41484

Laura Muñoz-Encinar

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Abstract

Recent research into the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the first years of the Francoist dictatorship (1939–1975) estimates that approximately 200,000 people were executed in Spain during this period, either extrajudicially or after popular tribunals or court martials. The bodies of the victims were for the most part buried in mass graves, thrown into riverbeds or disposed of in mines or caves. In this paper, I discuss how forensic examination of the mass graves can yield new evidence about political repression and shed new light on documentary and oral sources. I employ a multidisciplinary approach that combines archaeology and forensic anthropology to reconstruct the facts around the killings and produce new historical knowledge about the traumatic past of contemporary Spanish society.

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从尸体发掘到历史知识:分析佛朗哥在西班牙西南部的镇压

最近对西班牙内战（1936年至1939年）和弗朗索瓦独裁统治的头几年（1939年至1975年）的研究估计，在这一时期，西班牙约有20万人被处决，无论是法外处决，还是在人民法庭或军事法庭后处决。受害者的尸体大多埋在乱葬坑中，被扔进河床，或被丢弃在矿井或洞穴中。在这篇论文中，我讨论了对乱葬坑的法医检查如何产生关于政治镇压的新证据，并为文献和口头来源提供新的线索。我采用了一种多学科的方法，将考古学和法医人类学相结合，以重建谋杀事件的事实，并产生关于当代西班牙社会创伤过去的新的历史知识。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Contemporary Archaeology is the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to explore archaeology’s specific contribution to understanding the present and recent past. It is concerned both with archaeologies of the contemporary world, defined temporally as belonging to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as with reflections on the socio-political implications of doing archaeology in the contemporary world. In addition to its focus on archaeology, JCA encourages articles from a range of adjacent disciplines which consider recent and contemporary material-cultural entanglements, including anthropology, art history, cultural studies, design studies, heritage studies, history, human geography, media studies, museum studies, psychology, science and technology studies and sociology. Acknowledging the key place which photography and digital media have come to occupy within this emerging subfield, JCA includes a regular photo essay feature and provides space for the publication of interactive, web-only content on its website.