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 This volume assesses a variety of targeted, vital case studies providing genuine and fresh data (even unpublished pictures and archival records).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.
Volume editor:
Antonino Crisà
Imprint: Brill
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9789004696365
ISBN 10: 9004696369
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 08 August 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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).
