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Archaeology Behind the Battle Lines The Macedonian Campaign (1915-19) and its Legacy
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 primarily at the impact of the discoveries of the Army of the Orient on the archaeological study of the region of Macedonia. Resulting collections of antiquities are now held in Thessaloniki, London, Paris, Edinburgh and Oxford. Various specialists examine each of these collections, bringing the archaeological legacy of the Macedonian Campaign together in one volume for the first time.
A key theme of the volume is the emerging dialogue between the archaeological remains of Macedonia and the politics of Hellenism. A number of authors consider how archaeological interpretation was shaped by the incorporation of Macedonia into Greece. Other authors describe how the politics of the Campaign, in which Greece was initially a neutral partner, had implications both for the administration of archaeological finds and their subsequent dispersal. A particular focus is the historical personalities who were involved and the sites they discovered. The role of the Greek Archaeological Service, particularly in the protection of antiquities, as well as promoting excavation in the aftermath of the 1917 Great Fire of Thessaloniki, is also considered.
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Acknowledgements
Foreword: Archaeology Behind the Battle Lines
Michael Llewellyn-Smith
Introduction
Andrew Shapland and Evangelia Stefani
- A Most Cosmopolitan Front: Defining Features of the Salonika Campaign 1915–1918
- National Ideology and the Management of Antiquities in Macedonia (Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Century)
- Foreign Archaeologists in Greece in Time of War
- Trenches, Borders and Boundaries. Prehistoric Research in Greek Macedonia
- The Excavations Conducted by the Service Archéologique de l’Armée d’Orient in Northern Greece: New Information from the Archives Kept in France
- The British Salonika Force Collection at the British Museum
- The British Salonika Force, the British School at Athens, and the Archaic-Hellenistic Archaeology of Macedonia
- "Spy-Hunter" as Antiquary: Major A.G. Wade, Cultural Politics and the British Salonika Force collection at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
- Chauchitza at National Museums Scotland
- Write Home Salonica
- The Formation of The Collection of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the Exhibition "Archaeology Behind Battle Lines": A Dialogue
- "In the Trenches": Old Sites, New Finds and the Early Neolithic Period in Macedonia, Greece
Alan Wakefield
Evangelia Stefani
Richard Clogg
Kostas Kotsakis
Sophie Descamps-Lequime
Andrew Shapland, with an Appendix by Amelia Dowler
Catherine Morgan, with Appendices by Aude Mongiatti and Eleanor Blakelock, and Joanne Cutler, Margarita Gleba and Caroline Cartwright
Yannis Galanakis
Margaret Maitland
Diana Wardle
Angeliki Koukouvou
Anastasia Dimoula
13. Guvesne Revisited: A Century of British Engagement
K.A. Wardle
- 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.
