1st Edition

Archaeology Behind the Battle Lines The Macedonian Campaign (1915-19) and its Legacy

Edited By Andrew Shapland, Evangelia Stefani Copyright 2017
398 Pages 80 Color & 108 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

398 Pages 80 Color & 108 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume focuses on a formative period in the history and archaeology of northern Greece. The decade following 1912, when Thessaloniki became part of Greece, was a period marked by an extraordinary internationalism as a result of the population movements caused by the shifting of national borders and the troop movements which accompanied the First World War. The papers collected here look... Read more

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Acknowledgements

Foreword: Archaeology Behind the Battle Lines

Michael Llewellyn-Smith

Introduction

Andrew Shapland and Evangelia Stefani

  1. A Most Cosmopolitan Front: Defining Features of the Salonika Campaign 1915–1918
  2. Alan Wakefield

  3. National Ideology and the Management of Antiquities in Macedonia (Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Century)
  4. Evangelia Stefani

  5. Foreign Archaeologists in Greece in Time of War
  6. Richard Clogg

  7. Trenches, Borders and Boundaries. Prehistoric Research in Greek Macedonia
  8. Kostas Kotsakis

  9. The Excavations Conducted by the Service Archéologique de l’Armée d’Orient in Northern Greece: New Information from the Archives Kept in France
  10. Sophie Descamps-Lequime

  11. The British Salonika Force Collection at the British Museum
  12. Andrew Shapland, with an Appendix by Amelia Dowler

  13. The British Salonika Force, the British School at Athens, and the Archaic-Hellenistic Archaeology of Macedonia
  14. Catherine Morgan, with Appendices by Aude Mongiatti and Eleanor Blakelock, and Joanne Cutler, Margarita Gleba and Caroline Cartwright

  15. "Spy-Hunter" as Antiquary: Major A.G. Wade, Cultural Politics and the British Salonika Force collection at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
  16. Yannis Galanakis

  17. Chauchitza at National Museums Scotland
  18. Margaret Maitland

  19. Write Home Salonica
  20. Diana Wardle

  21. The Formation of The Collection of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the Exhibition "Archaeology Behind Battle Lines": A Dialogue
  22. Angeliki Koukouvou

  23. "In the Trenches": Old Sites, New Finds and the Early Neolithic Period in Macedonia, Greece

Anastasia Dimoula

13. Guvesne Revisited: A Century of British Engagement

K.A. Wardle

    1. Archaeology in Macedonia: Then and Now

Polyxeni Adam-Veleni

Index

Biography

Andrew Shapland is the Greek Bronze Age Curator in the Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum, UK.

Evangelia Stefani is Head of the Department of Ceramics, Frescoes and Mosaics at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece.