Timber for the trenches: a new perspective on archaeological wood from First World War trenches in Flanders Fields
| Autor: | Hans Beeckman, Kristof Haneca, Sjoerd van Daalen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology Provenance 060102 archaeology General Arts and Humanities 06 humanities and the arts Battlefield archaeology 01 natural sciences Archaeology Archival research First world war Geography Assemblage (archaeology) 0601 history and archaeology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Front (military) |
| Zdroj: | Antiquity. 92:1619-1639 |
| ISSN: | 1745-1744 0003-598X |
| Popis: | During the First World War (1914–1918), the construction and maintenance of the Western Front in North-west Europe required huge quantities of timber. Although archaeological investigations regularly uncover well-preserved wooden structures and objects, studies of the timber's provenance are rare. The authors combine archival research with wood-species identification and tree-ring analysis of a large assemblage of wooden objects excavated from former trenches on the Western Front. The results show that most objects and structures were made using fast-growing European species, with evidence for the small-scale but continuous importation of North American timber. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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