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- Feeding the troops
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- - Archaeology, bearing witness to unspeakable slaughter
  - Almost 700,000 missing
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- - 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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Pair of scissors belonging to August Hütten's sewing kit

Pair of scissors belonging to August Hütten's sewing kit

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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
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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