Summary
All wars are traumatic and leave a deep imprint in the collective memory of a society, but few wars are as traumatic as civil wars. They transform people, collectives and landscapes both deeply and extensively, and have shaped the course of human history. Yet they are also elusive to define – even for historians and political scientists – and have been the object of little theorization (Kalyvas 2010 [2006], Agamben 2015; Kissane 2016; Rodrigo and Alegre 2019). In archaeology, external conflicts have attracted more interest (Arkush and Allen 2006; Carman 2013), whereas civil wars have been mainly approached as yet another armed confrontation.
Keywords
Conflict archaeology. Archaeology. Human remains. Mass graves. Political violence.