Fields of Conflict: 
                Progress and Prospect in Battlefield 
                             Archaeology
                     An International Conference

             Dept. of Archaeology, University of Glasgow

                        15th-16th April, 2000

                  Final Programme and Booking Form

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


Sat 15th April

9.00-9.20 	Registration

9.20-9.30	Introduction and welcome

9.30-9.50 	John Lee (USA) Urban combat at Olynthos, 348 BC

9.50-10.10 	Tim Sutherland (UK) The Rings of the Lords: 
    Non military artefacts as battlefield indicators

10.10-10.30 	Anthea Boylston (UK) The anthropology of a mass 
grave 
    from the battle of Towton, 1461

10.30-10.50	Patrick Parsons (UK) Flodden Field: the sources and 
archaeology 
    of “a marvelouse great conflicte”

10.50-11.05	discussion

11.05-11.25	Coffee and Registration

11 25-11.45 	Douglas G. Scott (USA) Battlefield Archaeology: 
    Patterns of combat in the American Indian Wars

11.45-12.05 	Gerald R. Gates and Susan Bain (USA & UK) The Post 
Civil War Battlefield
    Pattern: A Modoc War example

12.05-12.25 	Gerald R. Gates (USA) Relocating the battle of Scorpion 
Point: 
    A passport in Time Project -1998

12.25-12.45 	Chris D. Adams and Diane E. White (USA) Archaeological 
views of the 
    Mescalero Apache Indian warfare period of the 
    American Southwest

12.45-1.00	Discussion 

1.00-2.15	LUNCH

2.15-2.35	Lawrence Babits (USA) ‘Book Archaeology’ of the 
Cowpens battlefield

2.35-2.55	Charles M. Haecker (USA) The official explanation 
versus the archaeological 
    record of a US-Mexican War battle

2.55-3.15	William B. Lees (USA) Reconnecting with the hallowed 
ground of the
    American Civil War

3.15-3.35 	Michael Wilkins (USA) A Post-processual archaeology 
of the American Civil
    War

3.35-3.55	Martha Temkin (USA) The Best Farm: An Examination 
of a Civil War
    Agricultural Landscape

3.55-4.10 	Discussion

4.10-4.30	Coffee

4.30-4.50	Tony Pollard and Len Van Schalkwyk (UK & RSA) The 
Little Bighorn of 
    Africa?: Isandlwana and the Anglo-Zulu War 
    Archaeological Project

4.50-5.10	Tony Pollard and Ian Knight (UK) “Place Ekowe in a 
state of defence”: 
    The archaeology of an Anglo-Zulu War fort

5.10-5.25	Discussion 

EVENING - Civic reception, Arms and Armour gallery, Kelvingrove 
Museum 

Sun 16th April

9.00-9.20 	John Carman (UK) Beyond military archaeology: 
    Battlefields as a research resource

9.20-9.40 	Andy Brown (UK) Towards a research agenda for 
battlefield archaeology

9.40-10.00 	Anne MacSween (UK) Preserving Scotland’s 
battlefields: 
    Powers practices and possibilities

10.00-10.20 	Hugh McBrien (UK) The preservation of smaller 
battlefields: 
    Skirmishes in the planning system

10.20-10.40 	D. Panton, A. Powter, A. Jankowski, N. Bull & J. Zvonor 
(Canada) 
    Lest we forget: Preserving meaning and emotion 
    through battlefield 
    terrain

10.40-11.00 	Edmon Castell and Lluis Falcó (Spain) Robin Hood at the 
Ebro: 
    Social Movements and Preservation of Historic Sites 
    in Southern Catalonia

11.00-11.15 	Discussion

11.15-11.30	Coffee

11.30-11.50 	Paul Courtney (UK) The archaeology of the early 
modern siege

11.50-12.10 	Jake Ivey (USA) Archaeological investigations at the 
Alamo

12.10-12.30 	Neil Price & Viveka Löndahl (Sweden & Finland) 
Bomarsund: 
    Archaeology and heritage management at the 
    site of a Crimean War Siege

12.30-12.50 	Discussion

12.50-2.00 	LUNCH

2.00-2.20 	Colin Martin (UK) Artillery and other battlefield 
weapons from shipwrecks 
		of the 16th and 17th centuries

2.20-2.40 	Ross MacKenzie (UK) Culloden: The battlefield as 
palimpsest -
     changing interpretations 1745-2000

2.40-3.00 	Glenn Foard (UK) The archaeological potential of 
battlefields 
    of the English Civil War

3.00-3.15 	Discussion

3.15-3.35 	Coffee

3.35-3.55	Peter Doyle and Matthew Bennett (UK) Geology as a tool 
for reinterpreting 
    Great War battle sites

3.55-4.15 	Mike Anderton (UK) Battlezone UK - the human face of 
a larger than life
     battlefield

4.15-4.35 	Jeff T. McGovern (USA) The materiality of conflict in 
20th century Ireland

4.35-5.55 	Vincent Holyoak (UK)The archaeology of British 
Military aviation: 
    Airfields as battlefields

5.55-5.10	Discussion

5.10-5.15 	Close

Fields of Conflict - Booking Form



















Conference Registration Fee

Includes conference presentations and wine reception on 
15th April

								Tick box
Non-Presenting delegate			£35			
Presenting delegate				£25			
Student					£20			
Day ticket 			 		£18	15th April	
							16th April	
Delegates will make their own lunch and dinner 
arrangements -
 the university is close to numerous pubs and restaurants

Accommodation

B&B in student Halls of residence @ £22.00 per person per 
night			
Number of rooms limited  - please book early				
							night of 14th April	
						night of 15th April	

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