The Historical Archaeology of Military Sites: Method and Topic

Contents

Introduction vii section 1. Historical-Archaeological Methods and the Documentation, Analysis, and Interpretation of Military Sites 1 ClarEnCE r. GEiEr, lawrEnCE E. babits, douGlas d. sCott, and david G. orr 1. Following the Paper Trail: A Historian’s Role at the Snake Hill Excavations, Ontario, Canada 3 JosEph w. a. whitEhornE 2. Geophysics: Some Recommendations and Applications 11 william F. hanna 3. Military Medicine in the Pre-Modern Era: Using Forensic Techniques in the Archaeological Investigation of Military Remains 21 douGlas d. sCott 4. When the Site Is a Scene: Battlefield Archaeology and Forensic Sites 31 mElissa a. Connor 5. Maritime Archaeology of Naval Battlefields 39 david l. Conlin and matthEw a. russEll 6. Watch-Fires of a Hundred Circling Camps: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Investigating Civil War Campsites 57 JosEph baliCki 7. Mapping Early Modern Warfare: The Role of Geophysical Survey and Archaeology in Interpreting the Buried Fortifications at Petersburg, Virginia 75 david G. orr and Julia stEElE section 2. Topics in the Historical Archaeology of Military Sites 83 ClarEnCE r. GEiEr, lawrEnCE E. babits, douGlas d. sCott, and david G. orr 8. Civil War Battlefield Archaeology: Examining and Interpreting the Debris of Battle 87 matthEw b. rEEvEs 9. Dissecting Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Battlefields: Two Case Studies from the Jacobite Rebellions in Scotland 99 tony pollard 10. Patterning in Earthen Fortifications 113 lawrEnCE E. babits 11. Methods in the Archaeology of Colonial Frontier Forts: Examples from Virginia and West Virginia 123 w. stEphEn mCbridE and kim a. mCbridE 12. Great War Archaeology in Belgium and France: A New Challenge for Battlefield Archaeologists 135 mathiEu dE mEyEr 13. History, Archaeology, and the Battle of Balaclava (Crimea, 1854) 149 philip FrEEman ContEnts vi contents 14. Cultural Landscapes and Collateral Damage: Fredericksburg and Northern Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in the Civil War 165 ClarEnCE r. GEiEr and kimbErly tinkham 15. Naval Battlefields as Cultural Landscapes: The Siege of Yorktown 177 John d. broadwatEr 16. The Maple Leaf: Wreck Site of a Civil War Transport Ship 189 Frank G. CantElas and lawrEnCE E. babits 17. Naval Monuments and Memorials: Symbols in a Contested Landscape 197 david J. stEwart 18. “We Must Act Under Our Own Chiefs According to our Own Customs”: Understanding Indigenous Military Archaeology 209 ron williamson 19. Tragedy of the Nez Perce War of 1877: An Archaeological Expression 219 douGlas d. sCott Glossary 229 References 245 Index 269 ...