Inconspicuous and forgotten material memories of the First World War: the case of a POW camp in Czersk
2018
rozdział w monografii naukowej
angielski
EN This chapter is a case study of a prisoner of war (POW) camp in Czersk, Poland, established by Germans during the First World War. The site of the Czersk camp provides a context for the presentation and discussion of three issues concerning archaeological research of the recent past. The first issue concerns how each branch of archaeology, including archaeology of the First World War, is by definition archaeology in and of the present. The second discussion is an attempt to conceptualize the First World War as an archaeological event. The third issue concerns reclaiming material memories of First World War POWs of Czersk by using the remote sensing technology of LiDAR. The chapter concludes with the observation that there are inconspicuous and forgotten material memories of the First World War that can be reclaimed only through the craft of archaeology.
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