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                        Fields of Conflict:
                Progress and Prospect in Battlefield
                             Archaeology

                     An International Conference

             Dept. of Archaeology, University of Glasgow

                        15th-16th April, 2000
           (note change from Feb as previously advertised)

                             Hosted by
             Dept. of Archaeology, University of Glasgow
            Dept. of Archaeology, University of Liverpool
                                 and
       Scottish Centre for War Studies, University of Glasgow

        We are pleased to present the provisional programme
      and invite registration for the first ever international
            conference devoted to battlefield archaeology

               Booking forms are now available from:
                      Battlefields Conference,
                               GUARD,
                        Dept. of Archaeology,
                       University of Glasgow,
                           Glasgow G12 8QQ

          A set of abstracts can be provided as an e-mail
          attachment from: [log in to unmask]

               Provisional list of speakers and papers
             (Session groupings may be subject to change)

Ancient and medieval warfare
John Lee (USA)          Urban combat at Olynthos, 348 BC
Tim Sutherland (UK)     The Rings of the Lords: Non military artefacts as
                                         battlefield indicators
Anthea Boylston (UK)    The anthropology of a mass grave from the battle of
                                        Towton, 1461
Patrick Parsons (UK)    Flodden Field: the sources and archaeology of ‘a
                                        marvelouse great conflicte'

    Post Medieval British Warfare

Colin Martin (UK)       Artillery and other battlefield weapons from shipwrecks
                                        of the 16th and 17th centuries

Ross MacKenzie (UK)     Culloden: the battlefield as palimpsest - changing
                                        interpretations 1745-2000

American Civil War & earlier North American conflicts
Lawrence Babits (USA)   ‘Book Archaeology’ of the Cowpens battlefield
William B. Lees (USA)   Reconnecting with the hallowed ground of the
                                                American Civil War
Michael  Wilkins (USA)  A Post-processual archaeology of the American
                                                Civil War
Martha Tempkin (USA)    The Best Farm: An Examination of a Civil War
                                                Agricultural Landscape
Stephen Potter (USA)    “These pictures have a terrible distinctness”: Using
                                        battlefield images and  computer visualisation
                                        techniques to study cultural landscapes

Charles M. Haecker (USA)        The official explanation versus the archaeological
                                                record of a US-Mexican War battle

North American Indian Wars
Douglas G. Scott (USA)  Battlefield Archaeology: Patterns of combat in the
                                                American Indian Wars
Gerald R.Gates (USA)
& Susan Bain (UK)               The Post Civil War Battlefield Pattern: A Modoc
                                                War example
Gerald R. Gates (USA)   Relocating the battle of Scorpion Point: A passport
                                                in Time Project -1998
Christopher D. Adams
& Diane E. White (USA)  Archaeological views of the Mescalero Apache
                                                Indian warfare period of the American Southwest

Siege warfare
Glenn Foard (UK)                The archaeological potential of battlefields and siege
                                        sites of the English Civil War
Paul Courtney (UK)      The archaeology of the early modern siege
Neil Price (Sweden) &
Viveka Londahl (Sweden) Bomarsund: archaeology and heritage management
                                                at the site of a Crimean War Siege
Tony Pollard &
Ian Knight (UK)         “Place Ekowe in a state of defence”: The archaeology of
                                        an Anglo-Zulu War fort

Twentieth Century warfare
Peter Doyle (UK) &
Matthew R. Bennett (UK) Geology as a tool for reinterpreting Great War
                                                battle sites
Mike Anderton (UK)      Battlezone UK - the human face of a larger than life
                                        battlefield
Jeffrey T. McGovern (USA) The materiality of conflict in 20th century
                                                Ireland
Vincent Holyoak (UK)    The archaeology of British Military aviation: Airfields as
                                        battlefields

Research and Management of battlefield sites
John Carman (UK)        Beyond military archaeology: battlefields as a research
                                        resource
Anne MacSween (UK)      Preserving Scotland’s battlefields: powers practices and
                                        possibilities
Hugh MacBrien (UK)      The preservation of smaller battlefields: skirmishes in
                                        the planning system
Andy Brown (UK) Towards a research agenda for battlefield archaeology
D. Panton, A. Powter,
A. Jankowski, N. Bull
& J. Zvonor (Canada)    Lest we forget: Preserving meaning and emotion
                                        through battlefield terrain
Tony Pollard (UK)  & Len
Van Schkalkwyk (S Africa) The Little Big Horn of Africa: Isandlwana and the
                                                Anglo-Zulu War Archaeological Project