Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and World War II

Italy, Greece, France and Finland as Historical Contexts
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69636-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

What can you learn about the impact of war on archaeology and museums in past conflicts such as World War II? What was the role of state authorities in protecting antiquities in some European contexts? This volume assesses a variety of targeted, vital case studies providing genuine and fresh data (even unpublished pictures and archival records).

For instance, contributions detail on the military requisition of the National Museum of Naples, the burial of artefacts in the National Museum of Athens basement, a little-known military excavation in Milazzo (Sicily), 'wararchaeology' of Crete and the rescue of war remains in Finnish Lapland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Crisà, Antonino

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Restaurierung, Konservierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Antonino Crisà

1 Italy 1940–45: Allied Reports on Antiquities

Carlotta Coccoli

2 ‘Quartered in the Midst of the Greatest Collection in All Italy’: Lessons from the Museo Nazionale di Napoli in Wartime

Nigel Pollard

3 War and the Antiquities at Risk in Sicily: a Case Study on the Artillery Position at the Polyphemus Cave in Milazzo (Messina, 1943)

Antonino Crisà

4 Memories of War: the Battle of Troina, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in Sicily

Flaminia Bartolini and Simon Stoddart

5 Bridges at War and Conservation of Cultural Heritage: a Case Study from Italy

Germano Germanò

6 The Antiquities in Attica during Conflict: the Impact of World War II

Chrysanthi Tsouli

7 Protecting Museum Antiquities during World War II: Photographs from the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, with a Story to Tell

Maria Chidiroglou

8 Kerameikos: a Significant Archaeological Site of Athens and Its Museum during World War II (1940–44)

Fotios Katevas

9 Never-Never Land under Attack: Axis War Damage to Cretan Antiquities

Jan Driessen

10 Rock(s) around the Bunker: the Destruction of the Archaeological Heritage of France during World War II

Jean-Pierre Legendre and Laurent Olivier

11 From ‘War Junk’ to ‘Isn’t This a Treasure!’: Processes of Heritagization of the Material Remains of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland

Suzie Thomas

Conclusion

Antonino Crisà

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Antonino Crisà, Ph.D. (2015), University of Leicester, is currently Assistant Professor of Humanities at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University. He has published substantial articles and two books on Sicilian archaeology, numismatics and museums, including 'When Archaeology Meets Communities' (Archaeopress, 2018).