Military Archaeology

Military and battlefield archaeology has always beenviewed as a sub-discipline to that oftraditional historical archaeology. Onceconsidered the pursuit of learned historyprofessors and their disciples today, military archaeology has flourished around theworld into what can only best be describedas a hugely popular pastime, and in someinstances a multi-million-pound business. With technologies available today, eventhe student on the most modest of budgetscan become an archaeologist (if only in thelayman's term).Yet despite it's popularity in unearthinganswers to the questions of our turbulentpast, there are surprisingly few textsavailable on what is arguably a fascinatingand historically important subject. Theobjective herein is to present an analysisof various battles fought around the worldfrom medieval times to the present, and thearchaeology recovered from investigationscarried out by professionally sanctionedgroups and hobbyists. The context hereincludes general battlefield recoveredartefacts, military aviation crash sites, SecondWorld War pill boxes, air raid shelters, POWCamps and other structures. There is alsoemphasis on Britain's ally in both world wars,the United States of America, examining theartefacts, wreckology, structures and dumpinggrounds left behind by the American militaryforces at the end of the Second World Warboth in the UK and Europe. Military Archaeology:How Detectorists and Major Finds Improve our Understanding of History is avaluable addition to the military and literaryanalysis of the archaeology of warfare fromthe Boudiccan uprising to the 2003 Invasionof Iraq.