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Archéologie de la Grande Guerre

Archéologie de la Grande Guerre

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- Archaeological remains
- What role for archaeology?
- What should we excavate?
- The question of commemoration
- Protecting a fragile heritage
- Archaeologists in the trenches
- Day-to-day life
- Supplies and equipment
- Feeding the troops
- Butchers at the airfield
- Civilians at war
- Arts and crafts in the trenches
- Day-to-day death
- - Archaeology, bearing witness to unspeakable slaughter
  - Almost 700,000 missing
  - Examples of different types of war grave»
  - Burying the dead
- - War on an industrial scale, death on an industrial scale
  - The Grimsby Chums
  - The German soldiers at Bétheny
  - The Carspach tunnels
  - The Route de Thélus battlefield
  - German and French casualties at Massiges
- - Individual Stories
  - Alain-Fournier (1886-1914)
  - Pierre Grenier (1885-1915)
  - Albert Dadure (1894-1915)
  - Archibald Mac Millan (1889-1917)
  - August Hütten (1880-1918)
- - Beasts and men, united in suffering
  - The horses of Braine
- Underground war and technical innovations
- - A mole’s life
  - Underground sleeping quarters at Arras
  - Mine warfare
- - New weapons
  - The Dragon of the Somme
  - The Flesquières tank
  - The airfield at Châtelet-sur-Retourne
- - The Great War at sea
  - A forgotten naval war, a neglected historical heritage
  - The Danton, 1917. A symbolic wreck from the Great War
  - Submarine U-95, 1918
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Archéologie de la Grande Guerre

Que nous dit l'archéologie du quotidien de la Grande Guerre ? À quels vestiges sont confrontés les archéologues ? À quelles archives inédites, absentes des récits de nos aïeux, les recherches archéologiques nous donnent-elles accès ? Le site est labellisé par la Mission du Centenaire

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Aerial View of The Grand Place and Arras City Centre

Aerial view of the Grand Place and Arras city centre

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Aerial View of The Grand Place and Arras City Centre
Aerial view of the Grand Place and Arras city centre

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Aerial view of the Grand Place and Arras city centre

Fonds documentaire Alain Jacques

Archaeological remains

What role for archaeology?
What should we excavate?
The question of commemoration
Protecting a fragile heritage
Archaeologists in the trenches

Day-to-day life

Supplies and equipment
Feeding the troops
Butchers at the airfield
Civilians at war
Arts and crafts in the trenches

Day-to-day death

Archaeology, bearing witness to unspeakable slaughter
War on an industrial scale, death on an industrial scale
Individual Stories
Beasts and men, united in suffering

Underground war and technical innovations

A mole’s life
New weapons
The Great War at sea

Resources

Media Library
Site map
Credits

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