International Workshop

From battlefields to memory sites: Conflict

archaeology through the ages

Barcelona, Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya

30 November-1 December 2018

Workshop Organisers: Jordi Principal (Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya),

Manuel Fernández-Götz (University of Edinburgh) and Antoni Ñaco del Hoyo
(ICREA-Universitat de Girona)

With the support of: Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, University of Edinburgh,

Leverhulme Trust, Universitat de Girona

FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER

9.30-10.00 J. Boya (Director MAC), J. Principal, M. Fernández-Götz & A. Ñaco del

Hoyo
Welcome and introduction to the workshop

10.00-10.30 F. Quesada (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

They make a desert and call it peace… Destruction and slaughter of non-combatants in
the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula

10.30-11.00 J.P. Bellón, C. Rueda, M.A. Lechuga & I. Moreno (Universidad de Jaén)
Fighting with conflict archaeology: the Second Punic War on the upper Guadalquivir
Valley

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.00 J. Principal (Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, Barcelona) & R. Sala

(SOT Prospecció arqueològica)
Conflict landscapes through time: Monteró castellum (NE Iberia) as an evolving
strategical location

12.00-12.30 N. Roymans (University of Amsterdam)

Conflict and demography. On the impact of the Caesarian conquest in the 1st century BC
Germanic frontier zone
12.30-13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.00 M. Fernández-Götz (University of Edinburgh) & J.F. Torres-Martínez

(Universidad Complutense)
Studying multi-layered conflict sites: Monte Bernorio (northern Spain) from Augustus to
Franco

15.00-15.30 S. Blasco (Universitat de València), G. Vivar & Rut Geli (CASC)

Addressing state and warship wrecks: conflict archaeology applied to underwater
archaeology through the case of Deltebre I

15.30-16.00 B. Veselka (University of Leiden)

Boksum Besieged, bioarchaeological analysis of individuals from a Spanish War (1568
– 1648 AD) mass grave from the Netherlands

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.00 X. Rubio-Campillo (University of Edinburgh)

Why did they fight here? Using computational methods to provide context to conflict sites

17.00-17.30 R. Blanco-Rotea (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) & S. Traba

The invisibility of woman in Conflict Archaeology. Reflections from an audiovisual
project

17.30-18.00 Discussion

SATURDAY 1 DECEMBER

10.00-10.30 T. Pollard (University of Glasgow)

Opening the gates of Hougoumont: A multidisciplinary approach to the archaeology of
the Battle of Waterloo

10.30-11.00 D. López Onaindia & M.E. Subirà (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Who lays here? Reflections on approaching the identification of Spanish Civil war victims
in battlefield areas in Catalonia

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.00 Final discussion and closure of the event