Abstract
This chapter grounds the volume in the era of Covid-19, Black Lives Matters protests, and the removal of statues of Confederate soldiers. The authors challenge those who work in battlefield archaeology or conflict archaeology to move beyond forensic studies of battlefields, fortifications, and other sites related to warfare to embrace and explicate the larger meanings, erased voices and perspectives, and lingering traumas of war and conflict. The authors describe how the papers presented in the volume are grounded in empirical battlefield archaeology, a commitment to engaging descent local and Indigenous people, and it bringing a critical perspective to how historical memory and commemorations of war are actively and politically constructed.
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