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This volume draws together the ground-breaking work of researchers and archaeological practitioners, working in multiple countries, to explore and understand the material and cultural impacts of the Pacific War.
List of contents
1. Introduction: A War of the Worlds; PART 1: 1942-43: 2. Bringing Together Divergent Experiences of World War II in the Aleutians; 3. Conflict Landscapes, Indigenous Landscapes, and Commemorative Landscapes: A PNG Perspective; 4. WWII in the Solomon Islands: Conflict and Aftermath; PART 2: 1944: 5. Chuuk Lagoon World War II Underwater Cultural Heritage: A Divers’ Paradise, a Chuukese Dilemma?; 6. Seeking a Shared Connection and Shared Heritage Through WWII Underwater Cultural Heritage in the Pacific; 7. "You’ve Come a Long Way to Study Something That is Bad": Human Remains, Ethics, and Community-Based Research in Conflict Archaeology in the Pacific; 8. Lives Encoded in Landscape: Unlocking Lost Narratives from the World War II Battle of Peleliu; PART 3: 1945: 9. The Current Situation of the Battlefield Archaeological Site Survey in Okinawa Prefecture; 10. Research, Conservation, and Utilization of War-Related Sites in Haebaru Town, Okinawa; 11. The Transition of Battery Positions on Okinawa Island; PART 4: AFTERMATH: 12. The Search and Identification of Burial places of Japanese Prisoners of War (POWs) in the Territory of Russia: Observations, Experiences, and Problems; 13. Himeyuri Peace Museum: The Personal Experience of War; 14. Negotiating Peleliu: Agency, Politics, and Place on the Battlefields of the Pacific War.
About the author
Ben Raffield is an Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Yu Hirasawa is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Human Sciences at University of East Asia, Japan.
Neil Price is Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Summary
This volume draws together the ground-breaking work of researchers and archaeological practitioners, working in multiple countries, to explore and understand the material and cultural impacts of the Pacific War.
