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

REVIEW BY NICHOLAS SAUNDERS The past 25 years have seen a revolution in our understanding of war (especially modern war), due partly to the shift from a solely military-history approach to an interdisciplinary one incorporating archaeology, anthropology, and scientific-technological advances. The change in the name of this field from ‘battlefield archaeology’ to ‘conflict archaeology’ recognises several components: one focuses on the social-cultural study of material culture and landscape, while another concerns the scientific-forensic study of human remains and funerary events – ‘archaeo-anthropology’. This book concerns the latter, offering French case studies from the Mi