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{"title":"The fort in the doctor’s house: using tree-ring growth patterns to discover historic Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA","authors":"Christopher Baas, T. Davis, Darrin L. Rubino","doi":"10.1080/15740773.2018.1582922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2018.1582922","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Local Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA) lore says that the Dr. Merchant Huxford House contains timbers from Fort Wayne, the US military outpost constructed in 1794 by General Anthony Wayne. The wilderness fort played roles in Native American and British conflicts and was the genesis for a city with a current population of more than 250,000. The doctor’s residence was built on the outskirts of the young city, but within 0.4 km of the fort site. Accounts contemporary to the house’s construction describe timbers being recycled from the fort for use in new building projects. This article describes the use of dendrochronological methods to establish a construction date for the Huxford House and attempts to confirm or dispel accounts that the house contains recycled timbers from the historic fort. Graphical abstract","PeriodicalId":53987,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflict Archaeology","volume":"13 1","pages":"97 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15740773.2018.1582922","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43745749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The archaeology of medieval and early modern battlefields in Flanders","authors":"G. Foard, Tracey Partida","doi":"10.1080/15740773.2018.1551914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2018.1551914","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The first pre-modern battlefield survey in Flanders was a pilot study at Oudenaarde in 2007. Three projects followed, between 2011 and 2013, funded by the Flemish Heritage Agency: an assessment of battlefields for inclusion on the Archaeological Inventory; a survey of Oudenaarde battlefield (1708); and an assessment of Lafelt battlefield (1747). This article reviews these projects in a wider context to reveal the current state of pre-modern battlefield archaeology in Flanders. It discusses the chronology, type and scale of battlefields, the character of the evidence, the methodology for its investigation, and threats to the sites and their conservation management needs.","PeriodicalId":53987,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflict Archaeology","volume":"13 1","pages":"12 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15740773.2018.1551914","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46823900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"I. Banks","doi":"10.1080/15740773.2018.1551981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2018.1551981","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53987,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflict Archaeology","volume":"13 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15740773.2018.1551981","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47277409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pagan: the archaeology of a WWII battle never fought in the Northern Mariana Islands","authors":"Boyd Dixon, Erik Lash, Richard Schaefer","doi":"10.1080/15740773.2018.1533667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2018.1533667","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Archaeological and historical investigation of WWII battles fought in the Micronesian archipelago of the Mariana Islands has generally concentrated on the fierce struggles for Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. Smaller islands that were neutralised during the U.S. thrust to establish air bases for the bombing campaign over Japan beginning in 1944 have received less attention, but were a strategic link in the Absolute National Defence Sphere. This paper examines the archaeological evidence of Japanese military planning for the defence of the island of Pagan situated north of Saipan, a battle that was never fought. The strategy based on an analysis of fixed weaponry emplacement appears to have been conceived in terms of engagement evolving from a ‘defence-at-the-waters-edge’ tactic in the southern Mariana Islands towards a ‘defence-in-depth’ posture faced in Iwo Jima and Okinawa.","PeriodicalId":53987,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflict Archaeology","volume":"13 1","pages":"37 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15740773.2018.1533667","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47133257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The existence of archery in Early Bronze Age southern Levant warfare: a note","authors":"Yitzhak Paz","doi":"10.1080/15740773.2018.1533283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2018.1533283","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Early Bronze Age was a time of major changes in southern Levantine regions. The spread of urbanisation in the course of the third millennium BC was accompanied by various socio-political transformations, tensions and also violent encounters, even if the evidence for the latter is hard to detect in the archaeological record. The almost complete absence of arrowheads from settlements and tombs in the southern Levant from this period has led to the assumption that combat archery was not employed during the Early Bronze Age. This paper challenges this orthodoxy using evidence from the southern Levant and beyond, and it concludes that archery was employed in combat activities during the Early Bronze Age, albeit on a small scale that was determined by military considerations.","PeriodicalId":53987,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflict Archaeology","volume":"13 1","pages":"11 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15740773.2018.1533283","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43398632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Command Centre Bjorn: the conflict heritage of a Swedish Cold War military installation","authors":"Tony Axelsson, A. Gustafsson, Håkan Karlsson, M. Persson","doi":"10.1080/15740773.2018.1536407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2018.1536407","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This text presents the results of a contemporary archaeological investigation of an important Swedish Cold War installation, Command Centre Bjorn. This centre was connected to the Air Force Attack Squadron and together with the coastal artillery and the navy it constituted a crucial part of the Swedish defence efforts during the Cold War period. The text also discusses questions concerning heritage processes, and it stresses that a contemporary archaeology approach can contribute with new insights into the Cold War and its heritage in Sweden, as well as canalize and offer guidance to the huge public interest in the material remains from this period in Sweden.","PeriodicalId":53987,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflict Archaeology","volume":"13 1","pages":"59 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15740773.2018.1536407","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45654837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"I. Banks, T. Pollard","doi":"10.1080/15740773.2017.1480388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2017.1480388","url":null,"abstract":"The final issue of Volume 12 of this journal has a great deal more diversity than the two previous issues. One aspect of this diversity is geographical. In addition to a paper set in the United States (McNutt), there is a paper on South African (Mosothwane), and one on Kazakhstan (Arzhantseva & Tazhekeev). This is in contrast to the previous two issues whose papers have all been located in Europe. The geographical range is very welcome as a contrast to the previous issues, but there are other reasons for welcoming the three papers in this issue. There have been surprisingly few papers in the Journal on topics relating to the USA, so it is nice to have a paper to cover that area. South Africa has been little served, either, with a paper in the first volume of the Journal in 2005, and nothing since then. Kazakhstan is an entirely new frontier, a place that has not been covered by the Journal at all. It is very welcome to have such diversity of locations in the Journal and emphasises the fact that conflict archaeology is being undertaken across the world. The geographical locations are matched by the fact that, with the exception of McNutt, the authors are from outwith the mainstream Anglo-American conflict community that is so apparent at Fields of Conflict every 2 years. Having a Botswanan and two Kazakhs as authors does something to redress the balance of nationalities reported at the last Fields of Conflict conference, where British and American authors vastly outweighed the other nationalities. Conflict archaeology is a vibrant field of study, and the previous issues in the volume emphasised this with their European focus. It is useful to be reminded of the wider interest in conflict beyond Europe and America, however. There is a tendency amongst many outside the field to assume that conflict archaeology is mainly about battlefields, and if not battlefields, then perhaps military installations. However, as we made very clear at the start of the Journal in 2015, the concept of conflict archaeology guiding the Journal of Conflict Archaeology is a broad definition of conflict that does not require armies but looks at other forms of conflict as well. We have hosted papers on industrial conflict (Saitta, Walker, and Reckner 2005), art historical analysis (Ferris 2005; Parnell 2013; Breeze & Ferris 2016), protest activism (Fisher 2008), forestry camps in WWII (Sneddon 2008), colonial conflict (Grguric 2009), military-related industry (Myles 2011), and cultural resource management (Banks and Pollard 2011; Van der Auwera 2012). While battlefields are a major area of research in conflict archaeology, conflict archaeology and battlefield archaeology are not synonymous. The success of initiatives such as the War Through Other Stuff conference in February 2017 in Edinburgh, which has given birth to further workshops and a range of forthcoming publications, reveals the richness of work being carried out around conflict in general. Quoting from the WTOS webs","PeriodicalId":53987,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflict Archaeology","volume":"12 1","pages":"139 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15740773.2017.1480388","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43945977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contested landscapes of Soviet Central Asia: an ethnoarchaeological case study from Kazakhstan","authors":"I. Arzhantseva, A. A. Tazhekeev","doi":"10.1080/15740773.2017.1480449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2017.1480449","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A group of rectangular and circular enclosures in southwest Kazakhstan, originally thought to be prehistoric or early historical, has turned out to date from the 1950s and 1960s. They were built as livestock pens (kora) to protect rice paddies from free-grazing cattle. Rice cultivation had been introduced to the region east of the Aral Sea by deported ethnic Koreans from the Soviet Far East after the native pastoral nomadism had been destroyed by forced collectivisation in the early 1930s. This had resulted in the Great Famine of 1931–33, evidence for which is provided by refugees’ burials found on archaeological sites in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The case study illustrates an approach to the study of twentieth century contested landscapes using evidence from archaeology, ethnography, and oral history. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT","PeriodicalId":53987,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflict Archaeology","volume":"12 1","pages":"177 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15740773.2017.1480449","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48476141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘What’s left of the flag’: the Confederate and Jacobite ‘lost cause’ myths, and the construction of mythic identities through conflict commemoration","authors":"Ryan K. McNutt","doi":"10.1080/15740773.2017.1480419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2017.1480419","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The use of battlefields and associated conflict sites provide tantalising hooks upon which to hang tapestries of grand narratives relating to regional and national identities, often defined by what the identities are not. This paper examines the unlikely connection between Jacobite and Confederate romanticism, and how battlefields, conflict related sites, and symbolic material culture are mobilised through active commemoration by some heritage groups in support of a created, mythic identity of a ‘Southern Celt’. Furthermore, it examines the production of a mythic history that whitewashes and recasts the Confederacy, the reality of the Civil War, and the Confederate Flag, while at the same time minimising, hiding, or ignoring competing narratives.","PeriodicalId":53987,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflict Archaeology","volume":"12 1","pages":"142 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15740773.2017.1480419","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49645975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The ‘bullets to water’ belief complex: a pan-southern African cognate epistemology for protective medicines and the control of projectiles","authors":"Brent Sinclair-Thomson, Sam Challis","doi":"10.1080/15740773.2017.1487122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2017.1487122","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Remarkable similarities across colonial encounters where Africans believed projectiles could be influenced by ritual practices (medicines, behaviours, observances) demand enquiry into their conception and trajectory. Although suggestion of pan-subcontinental phenomena may elicit suspicion of a generalisation, here evidence is examined from the late-independent and colonial periods that shows that a general belief, held cognate between groups, may indeed have existed. The focus is on precolonial1 southern African beliefs in the manipulation of projectiles and how these may have affected ritual responses to firearms during colonisation. At least a millennium of interactions between hunters, herders and farmers appear to have resulted in commonly held beliefs, albeit with differential emphases. From first contact, and into sustained colonisation, it became necessary for Africans to highlight and/or adapt indigenous beliefs as mechanisms by which to cope with firearms and settler aggressive expansion.","PeriodicalId":53987,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Conflict Archaeology","volume":"12 1","pages":"192 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15740773.2017.1487122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46083710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}