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Published:31/07/2025Language:EnglishPages:200, Illustrated throughout in black & white and colour.BAR Number: S3225Series: BAR International Series

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Archaeo-anthropology of Conflicts in France

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From the earlier Middle Ages to the Second World War

Edited by Emeline Verna, Elodie Cabot, Yves Desfossés, Michel Signoli

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This work is the result of a collective research project, Archaeology and Anthropology of Conflicts (2020-2022), which brought together around thirty researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds in anthropology, archaeology, history, and genetics. Its aim was both to inventory sites related to these contexts and to illustrate, through specific cases, the diversity of situations encountered across time and space.

War often leads to extraordinary mortality, raising questions about how the living adapt to the abnormality of death in the management of the deceased. How did survivors, comrades-in-arms, enemies, or even civilians handle corpses, balancing funeral traditions with urgent sanitary concerns?

This volume brings together twenty articles that highlight the wide variety of funerary practices, and presents burial sites ranging from the Early Middle Ages to the twentieth century. These sites are analyzed through both an archaeological and a memorial perspective.

About the Editor

Emeline Verna is a lecturer in biological anthropology at Aix-Marseille University and specialises in individual bone variability and the analysis of bone trauma.

Elodie Cabot is an archaeo-anthropologist at Inrap Grand Ouest, specialist in cremated and buried human remains, and in the violence of the revolutionary period.

Yves Desfossés is General Curator of Heritage at the DRAC of the Grand-Est region and in charge of archaeology of contemporary conflicts in France.

Michel Signoli is director of research at the CNRS, an anthropologist specializing in the study of contexts of extraordinary deaths resulting from epidemics or conflicts.

List of Contributors: Remi Barbieri, Laetitia Bouniol, Kate Brady, Pierre Chevet, Caroline Costedoat, Margaret Cox, Laetitia Dalmau, Déborah Delobel, Gilles Desplanque, Myriam Dhor-Combe, Mathilde Ducloyer, Manon Ehrhart, Jean-Marc Femolant, Véronique Gendrot, Thomas Guérin, Bérangère Jossier, Laetitia Lanteri, Antoine Le Boulaire, Bastien Ledieu, Fanny Lelandais, Pauline Lhommel, Louise Loe, Loreleï Margely-Lardeyret, Aurélie Mayer, Romuald Mercurin, Marine Meucci, Stephan Naji, Maëlle Pillorget, Nadège Robin, Jehanne Roul, Franck Torres, Stefan Tzortzis, Thierry Vette, Danaël Veyssier, Guillaume Visseaux.

Reviews

‘This book highlights one of the most prominent problems in archaeology of historical conflicts: how did past societies organize and manage death on the battlefield and in wartime? Interdisciplinary papers present new original discoveries from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, revealing the specific behaviours of European societies at war.’ Dr Vincent Carpentier, Inrap / University of Caen Normandy

‘This work is especially notable for its historic breadth. It is a significant contribution to the study of warfare and human conflict through time.’ Dr Douglas D. Scott, Colorado Mesa University