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The archaeology of war /

From the flint weapons of prehistory to the sophisticated nuclear missiles of today, archaeologists are unearthing and documenting the dramatic story of warfare--in so many ways, the story of human history itself. New discoveries have revealed what really happened at key battles, military strategies...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hatherleigh Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Military art and science > History.
Archaeology.
Archaeology
Art et science militaires > Histoire.
Archéologie.
archaeology.
Military art and science.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : war and archaeology : a new voice / Mark Rose
  • Prehistory of warfare / Steven A. LeBlanc
  • Murder or war? / Alexander Benenson
  • Unearthing a violent past / Alexander Benenson
  • Icons of war / Mark Rose
  • Life and death in a Maya war zone / Charles Suhler and David Freidel
  • Battlers at the bottom of the world / Brian Fagan
  • Egypt's new kingdom warrior kings / Mark Rose
  • Was there a Trojan War? / Manfred Korfmann
  • Evidence from Hittite records / J.D. Hawkins
  • Evidence from Homer / Joachim Latac
  • Warriors of Paros / F. Zafeiropoulou and A. Agelarakis
  • Fallen heroes / Mark Rose
  • Eyewitness : Alexander at Granicus / Edited by Mark Rose
  • The spoils of Actium / William Murray and Photios M. Petsas
  • Rating ancient warships / William Murray
  • Monuments to war / Alexander Benenson
  • Rescuing an old dig / Hilary Cool
  • Were Sarmatians the source of Arthurian legend? / C. Scott Littleton
  • Chinese chimes and chariots / Jarrett A. Lobell
  • A day of much slaying / Mark Rose
  • Lancaster vs. York / Mark Rose
  • The ship that terrorized Europe / Alexander Benenson
  • Suppression of the Cathars / James Wiseman
  • Reconstructing medieval artillery
  • Eyewitness : the crusades and the fall of Constantinople / Edited by Mark Rose
  • The Mary Rose / Alexander Benenson
  • Quality cargo / Eric A. Powell
  • Death march of Hernando de Soto / David H. Dye
  • Pizarro's family and his head / Mark Rose
  • Eyewitness : Cortes and the night of sorrows / Edited by Alexander Benenson
  • Relics of the kamikaze / James P. Delgado
  • Facing the Khan's wrath / James P. Delgado
  • Digging Napoleon's dead / Jarrett A. Lobell
  • Napoleon's lost fleet / Angela M.H. Schuster
  • Eyewitness : the battle of the Nile / Edited by Mark Rose
  • The Great Wall's patchwork history / Alexander Benenson
  • The forgotten fight for America / Mark Rose
  • Anatomy of a massacre / David R. Starbuck
  • Turtle dives again / Tom Gidwitz
  • Benedict Arnold gunboat / Jessica E. Saraceni
  • Remains of a sumptuous feast / Nathaniel Ralston
  • The guns of Palo Alto / Charles M. Haecker
  • Doing time / David R. Bush
  • Union soldiers identified / Jessica E. Saraceni
  • Civil War espionage / Andrew Slayman
  • Iron warships of the Civil War / Alexander Benenson
  • Georgia on my mine / Eric A. Powell
  • Fire fight at Hembrillo basin / Karl W. Laumbach
  • In Flanders Fields / Neil Asher Silberman
  • Eyewitness : trench warfare in World War I / Edited by Mark Rose
  • A long road home / William Belcher and Helen M. Wols
  • The great MIA hunt / William Belcher
  • World War II POWs
  • Unearthing Soviet massacres / Spencer P.M. Harrington
  • Bones at the River Kwai / Dominic G. Diongson
  • Fritz Ritz / Jessica E. Saraceni
  • Garden under guard / Eric A. Powell
  • Remembering Chelmno / Juliet Golden
  • Proving ground of the nuclear age / William Johnson and Colleen Beck
  • Diving at ground zero / James P. Delgado
  • Cold War memories / Edited by Mark Rose.