Archaeology · Maritime & Industrial Archaeology

Modern Conflict Archaeology

A topic within Maritime & Industrial Archaeology, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Archaeology.

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Report1989

Submerged Cultural Resources Study: USS Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark

Daniel J. Lenihan

Presents the National Park Service's underwater survey of the sunken USS Arizona, arguing that the wreck should be managed as a war grave and archaeological site whose ongoing corrosion needs monitoring rather than as salvage or a diving attraction.

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Archaeology · Maritime & Industrial Archaeology

FreeIntermediate

Book2018

A Shadow of War: Archaeological Approaches to Uncovering the Darker Sides of Conflict from the 20th Century

Claudia Theune

Argues that the material remains of camps, battlefields and sites of persecution preserve details of twentieth-century atrocity that written testimony alone leaves out, and that excavating them is part of confronting that history rather than a neutral technical exercise.

Archaeology · Maritime & Industrial Archaeology

FreeIntermediate

Reading on Modern Conflict Archaeology

Submerged Cultural Resources Study: USS Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark

A Shadow of War: Archaeological Approaches to Uncovering the Darker Sides of Conflict from the 20th Century

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