Archaeo-anthropology of conflicts in France : from the earlier Middle Ages to the Second World War /

This work is the result of a collective research project, Archaeology and Anthropology of Conflicts (2020-2022), which brought together around thirty researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds in anthropology, archaeology, history and genetics. Its aim was both to inventory sites related to t...

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Other Authors: Verna, Emeline, 1988- (Editor), Cabot, Elodie (Editor), Desfossés, Yves (Editor), Signoli, Michel (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Abstracts in English and French.
Published: Oxford, UK : BAR Publishing, 2025.
Series:BAR international series ; 3225.
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Table of Contents:
  • Some examples of conflicts over the centuries : from early Middles Ages to 19th. Kill, die, bury : war violence in the early Middle Ages / Jehanne Roul ; The Battle of Verneuil (17 August 1424) from the battlefield archaeology viewpoint / Thomas Guérin ; A crisis cemetery from the late Middle Ages in Anzin-Saint-Aubin (Pas-de-Calais) / Laetitia Dalmau, Déborah Delobel ; Auxi-le-Château (France, 16th-17th century) : a group of soldiers from the France-Spain realms border / Aurélie Mayer, Pauline Lhommel, Rémi Barbieri, Michel Signoli, Caroline Costedoat ; A skeleton on the island of Houat, witness to the Franco-English naval wars of the 16th-17th centuries / Elodie Cabot, Mathilde Ducloyer, Guillaume Visseaux ; From archaeology to history : the case of mortality crisis management in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) at the end of the modern period / Bérangère Jossier, Fanny Lelandais, Romuald Mercurin ; Between war and epidemic : an anthropological approach to a soldiers' grave during the War of Spanish Succession (Douai) / Michel Signoli ; Mass graves from the battle of Le Mans (1793) / Élodie Cabot, Pierre Chevet, Véronique Gendrot ; Soldiers from An II in the Trois-Maisons cemetery in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) / Stéfan Tzortzis, Laetitia Lanteri, Myriam Dhor-Combe, Michel Signoli ; The battle of Reichshoffen-Woerth (August 6, 1870) : the French 99th regiment / Emeline Verna, Marine Meucci, Thierry Vette, Caroline Costedoat ; Giving a name to the deceased : the use of genetic tools in the process of identifying soldiers / Caroline Costedoat
  • The two world wars on French soil. Some cases of isolated burials of soldiers of World War I (Aisne) / Nadège Robin, Gilles Desplanque ; The burial trench at the Châtelet-sur-Retourne site (August 1914) / Emeline Verna, Marine Meucci, Yves Desfossés, Loreleï Margely-Lardeyret, Elodie Cabot, Franck Torres, Michel Signoli, Caroline Costedoat ; Identifying Commonwealth soldier through war trauma : a case study of Private Herbert Greaves / Loreleï Margely-Lardeyret, Stephan Naji ; Discovery of three German soldiers of the First World War : 1914 in Boissy-Frenoy (Oise) / Danaël Veyssier ; Land-use planning and the accidental discovery of military mortal remains : how to find the right balance? The case of Ablaincourt-Pressoir / Marine Meucci, Emeline Verna, Maëlle Pillorget, Manon Ehrhart, Bastien Ledieu, Caroline Costedoat ; Janus--looking back, looking forward : a retrospective on the recovery and analysis of artefacts for identifying World War One soldiers from mass graves, Fromelles, northern France / Louise Loe, Margaret Cox, Kate Brady ; An archaeology of medicine during the Great War : excavation of the hospital center in Savenay (Loire-Atlantique) and the American hospitals in western France (1917-1920) / Antoine Le Boulaire ; Discovery and identification of a Second World War Moroccan rifleman / Marine Meucci, Emeline Verna, Caroline Costedoat ; Beauvais (Oise) : study of a Luftwaffe temporary cemetery, 1940-1942 / Laetitia Bouniol, Jean-Marc Femolant, Emeline Verna.