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    • Title:Historical archaeology of military sites [electronic resource] : method and topic / edited by Clarence R. Geier ... [et al.].
    • ISBN:160344310X
      9781603443104
      1603442073
      9781603442077 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Published/Created:College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
    • Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 281 p. :) ill., maps ;
    • Links:Online book
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    • Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
    • Notes:Description based on print version record.
    • Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement.
    • Variant and related titles:Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
      Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Archeology and Anthropology Collection.
      Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
      UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-268) and index.
    • Contents:Civil War battlefield archaeology: examining and interpreting the debris of battle -- Dissecting seventeenth and eighteenth century battlefields: two case studies from the Jacobite rebellions in Scotland -- Patterning in earthen fortifications -- Methods in the archaeology of colonial frontier forts: examples from Virginia and West Virginia -- Great War archaeology in Belgium and France: a new challenge for battlefield archaeologists -- History, archaeology, and the Battle of Balaclava (Crimea, 1854) -- Cultural landscapes and collateral damage: Fredericksburg and Northern Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in the Civil War -- Naval battlefields as cultural landscapes: the Siege of Yorktown -- The Maple Leaf: the wreck site of a Civil War transport ship -- Naval monuments and memorials: symbols in a contested landscape -- We must act under our own chiefs according to our own customs: understanding indigenous military archaeology -- The tragedy of the Nez Perce War of 1877: an archaeological expression -- Glossary.
      Following the paper trail: a historian's role at the Snake Hill excavations, Ontario, Canada -- Geophysics: some recommendations and applications -- Military medicine in the pre-modern era: using forensic techniques in the archaeological investigation of military remains -- When the site is a scene: battlefield archaeology and forensic sites -- Maritime archaeology of naval battlefields -- Watch-fires of a hundred circling camps: theoretical and practical approaches to investigating Civil War campsites -- Mapping early modern warfare: the role of geophysical survey and archaeology in interpreting the buried fortifications at Petersburg, Virginia -- Topics in the historical archaeology of military sites --
    • Subjects:Archaeology and history--Case studies.
      Archaeology--Methodology--Case studies.
      Excavations (Archaeology)--Case studies.
      Military archaeology--Case studies.
      Military history--Case studies.
    • Also listed under:Geier, Clarence R.
      Project Muse.