1st Edition

Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Rebuilding Knowledge, Memory and Community from War-Damaged Material Culture

Edited By Paul Newson, Ruth Young Copyright 2018
    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    The human cost in any conflict is of course the first care in terms of the reduction, if not the elimination of damage. However, the destruction of archaeology and heritage as a consequence of civil and international wars is also of major concern, and the irreversible loss of monuments and sites through conflict has been increasingly discussed and documented in recent years. 

    Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage draws together a series of papers from archaeological and heritage professionals seeking positive, pragmatic and practical ways to deal with conflict-damaged sites. For instance, by showing that conflict-damaged cultural heritage and archaeological sites are a valuable resource rather than an inevitable casualty of war, and suggesting that archaeologists use their skills and knowledge to bring communities together, giving them ownership of, and identification with, their cultural heritage.

    The book is a mixture of the discussion of problems, suggested planning solutions and case studies for both archaeologists and heritage managers. It will be of interest to heritage professionals, archaeologists and anyone working with post-conflict communities, as well as anthropology, archaeology, and heritage academics and their students at a range of levels.

    Table of Contents

    List of Contributors

    Section 1: Introduction

    Chapter 1

    Conflict: People, Heritage and Archaeology

    Paul Newson and Ruth Young

    Section 2: Legal Frameworks

    Chapter 2

    Cultural Heritage Destruction in the Middle East: UNESCO’s Work to Mitigate Damage and Plan for Recovery

    Nada al-Hassan

    Chapter 3

    The Need for Pre-Conflict Planning for Cultural Property Protection in the Event of Armed Conflict

    Chris McDaid

    Section 3: Strategies – Post-Conflict

    Chapter 4

    Post Conflict Heritage and Recovery: A Role for the Military

    Laurie W. Rush

    Chapter 5

    Conflict, Memory and Material Culture: the Archaeology of the Contestado War in Brazil (1912-1916)

    Jaisson Teixeira Lino, James Symonds and Pedro Paulo Funari

    Chapter 6

    The Importance of Cultural Heritage in Enhancing a Syrian National Identity and the role of local non-state actors in preserving it

    Amr Al-Azm

    Chapter 7

    Reconstructing Post-Conflict Heritage in Rwanda

    John Giblin

    Section 4: Methodologies of Recording

    Chapter 8

    Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA): approach and possible solutions

    Robert Bewley

    Chapter 9

    A Post-conflict scenario in the Caucasus region: a documentation drive to assess monumental heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh

    Alvaro Higueras

    Chapter 10

    Maximising information from conflict-damaged sites: a case study from Lebanon.

    Paul Newson and Ruth Young

    Section 5: Community Building

    Chapter 11

    In the aftermath of violence: heritage and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland

    Audrey Horning and Colin Breen

    Chapter 12

    After Angkor: an Archaeological Perspective on Heritage and Capacity-Building in Cambodia

    Miriam Stark and Heng Piphal

    Chapter 13

    Archaeology from below in Swat, Pakistan. Heritage and social mobilization in a post-conflict reality

    Luca M. Olivieri

    Section 6: Contingent Solutions – The Archaeologist’s Role

    Chapter 14

    Archaeology in Post-War El Salvador

    Kathryn E. Sampeck

    Chapter 15

    Mes Aynak (Afghanistan), Global Standards and Local Practices

    Hans H. Curvers

     

    Index

    Biography

    Paul Newson is Associate Professor in Archaeology at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He is interested in landscape archaeology and the rural environments of the Graeco-Roman world, particularly the Eastern Mediterranean. He has directed fieldwork in Syria, Libya and Lebanon.

    Ruth Young is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Leicester, UK. She is interested in the historical archaeology of the Middle East and South Asia and has directed excavations and fieldwork in Iran, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Her recent publications include The Archaeology of South Asia (2015).